Angela Harbutt of Liberal Vision and Samizdata’s Jonathan Pearce say much of what needs to be said about the British Medical Association’s depressingly predictable demand that all alcohol advertising and sponsorship should be banned.
Meanwhile, elsewhere, Simon Clark draws my attention to the next front in the endless War on Smoking. Apparently smoking should be banned from pub patios and other outdoor areas too. Seriously. Mark my words, however, we’ll be hearing more on this, no matter how daft it may initially seem.
It continues to mystify me that organisations such as ASH are listened to as though they were some kind of independent umpire, while groups such as Forest are dismissed simply because they receive some funding from tobacco companies. In a sensible world this would not be the case.
In any case, the logic of a ban on alcohol advertisig is as feeble as the logic of the ban on tobacco advertising.
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