Evidence that harm-reduction and Government revenue don’t mix
Photographed round the back of Tavistock Post Office yesterday, this is clearly the staff ’smoking bucket’. It looks awful to people who have never smoked. It looks awful to those of us who once smoked but have since given up.
If I remember my days as an addicted smoker, it would have looked awful even while I was still smoking but, insanely, I – like the Post Office people – would have carried right on doing it.
It’s a powerful symbol of a drug that is so clearly destructive that no-one (not even a smoker) would argue otherwise. More than that, it stands for a form of cultural suicide: death by self-medication.
The same, or worse, situation exists with alcohol.
One day, we’ll look back at these times without the fog of this cultural self-medication intertwined with its mass denial and political revenue generation.
And we’ll see that Professor Nutt was right. These two drugs are far more damaging than all the illicit drugs put together. The problem is simply that most people don’t want to look at their relationship to them. The Government is only to happy to benefit from that.
Hi, You are so right.
Er.. thank you Peter
Hi, You are so right.