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Cigarette pack pictures: horror porn for prigs

Read Mick Hume in The Times (London) on how the state wants to nationalise our bodies as well as the banks.

Mick Hume

Mick Hume
Columnist

Topics Politics

Wednesday 1 October:

‘It’s not just the banks. Today marks the next stage in the campaign to nationalise our bodies. Not content with those big written warnings on packets – Smoking Kills/Causes Impotence/Destabilises the Financial System, etc – the authorities are replacing them from today with stark pictures of what smoking can do: a tar-blackened lung, a cancerous throat, rotten teeth, open-heart surgery and even a corpse…’

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Topics Politics

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