I consider myself to be adult enough to make my own educated decisions as to health risks in regard to smoking and drinking and so I don't feel the need for government intervention on such a wide all-encompassing scale. By all means strictly enforce the laws regarding the sale of alcohol and tobacco products to, and consumption of by, under-age people, but please leave us adults to make our own choices. Instead use the decades of ever-increasing taxes drained only from the smokers' and drinkers' pockets, to supplement the National Health Service finances, depleted we are told by smokers' and drinkers' illnesses.
As a proud Englishman I could ramble on indefinitely but won't, but will ask this. If a loaf of bread that cost four pence half penny old money when I was a boy, and now in 2011 costs nearly two pounds decimal money, does this mean that today's pound is only worth two pence farthing old money? If so is this progress?
Obediently yours
David Brittain
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