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Lead us not into temptation
Mar 28 2008 By Maureen Messent
THAT government edict by which cigarettes could be banned from display surely doesn't go far enough.
Britain is suffering an obesity epidemic, so why not ban bakers, like Gregg's, for instance, from displaying their cream cakes and allied goodies lest fatties fall into temptation?
Let there be little speaking weighbridges at every door - a couple of pounds too heavy and you're barred.
Chemists could be ordered to cover up their headache pills and potions for fear we will be lured into overdoses, butchers coerced into hiding their wares because sirloin might incite passers-by to an injurious surfeit of red meat.
As for pubs... well, they might as well put up their shutters because it won't be long before this harassing government decides they are a danger to alcoholics and, therefore, out of bounds for all we moderate topers.
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