Let the poor smoke, says UK Health Secretary just before election day
Main Category: Smoking / Quit SmokingArticle Date: 10 Jun 2004 - 19:00 PDT
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UK health secretary angered health campaigners and anti-smoking groups when he recently said that smoking is one of the few pleasures left for the poor.
He believes that the middle classes were obsessed with giving instructions to people from lower socio-economic backgrounds and that there are worst smoking was not one of the worst problems facing poorer people. In response, the anti-smoking group Ash said: "The argument is that we should have smoke-free work environments.
John Reid has got this hang-up about the middle class imposing itself on the lower class, when it's the least empowered, people like bar workers, who are having smoking imposed on them."
F. Nelson, The Scotsman, June 10, 2004
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