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Taxes on alcohol, tobacco, and soft drinks are fair and produce health gains, review finds

BMJ 2018; 361 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.k1524 (Published 05 April 2018) Cite this as: BMJ 2018;361:k1524

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Re: Taxes on alcohol, tobacco, and soft drinks are fair and produce health gains, review finds

I support Dr Braillon. Indeed, a search through the archives will show that I have advocated aerial spraying of herbicides to kill off tobacco crops. I have also advocated tbe emptying out of alcohol bottles held in the bars of the Commons into the mouth of Old Father Thames.

Those who have read history might recall that the British traders once forced opium down the throats of the Chinese. We mounted the Opium Wars. Of course we won.

We are proud of our grape harvests and our fizzy which is said to match ....Champagne.

Let us turn our alcohol into automobile fuel.

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12 April 2018
JK Anand
Retired doctor
Free spiriti support
Peterborough