tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-260937491645277092.post2645703633533295103..comments2023-08-27T13:04:51.898+01:00Comments on Freedom-2-Choose (Scotland): Sheila Duffy falls back on academic studyBelindahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16284836559314332001noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-260937491645277092.post-60100896525018267072012-05-01T08:09:14.661+01:002012-05-01T08:09:14.661+01:00Thanks DP :)
Junican: I am sure that the governme...Thanks DP :)<br /><br />Junican: I am sure that the government must know. Social marketing has sold itself to tobacco control as a behaviour modification unit: http://www.management.stir.ac.uk/about-us/institute-of-social-marketing<br /><br />Hastings is professor in the unit at Stirling UniversityBelindahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16284836559314332001noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-260937491645277092.post-67317704364377668962012-05-01T00:01:17.807+01:002012-05-01T00:01:17.807+01:00You might like to know who Gerard Hastings one of ...You might like to know who Gerard Hastings one of the authors of the report) is. He is one of the expert witnesses who appeared for McTear in the McTear V Imperial Tobacco case. <br /><br /><br /><br /><i>Professor Hastings said that in addition to having been Special Advisor to the House of Commons Health Committee on the Tobacco Industry and the health risks of<br />smoking, he was currently Special Advisor in connection with an inquiry into obesity.</i><br /><br />Here is what the judge said about the evidence of Hastings:<br /><br /><i>The evidence of Professor Hastings appears to me to add nothing for present purposes.</i><br /><br />So we see a marketing man, who knows nothing at all about lung cancer and such but is a mere marketing man, but also a senior ASHite being part of an 'independent' panel producing an 'independent' report! <br /><br />Corruption upon corruption upon corruption. <br /><br />I wonder if Lansley know anything about this?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-260937491645277092.post-65744038890521851512012-04-29T16:15:11.099+01:002012-04-29T16:15:11.099+01:00Belinda, in answer to the commenters who accuse yo...Belinda, in answer to the commenters who accuse you of supposition when talking of tobacco duty rising to compensate if prices fall after plain packaging. It's not supposition at all, in fact it's part of the plan.<br /><br /><i>"Fact: If there is a reduction in price, taxes can be raised to compensate."</i><br /><br />And it's from the very same CRUK too <a href="http://info.cancerresearchuk.org/prod_consump/groups/cr_common/@nre/@pol/documents/image/cr_078389.pdf" rel="nofollow">(page 3 here)</a>. <br /><br />Thought you might find that useful. ;)Dick Puddlecotehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01481866882188932892noreply@blogger.com