Health Warning

Tobacco is the only legal product that will kill you if you use it exactly according to the manufacturer's specifications. Anti-smoking measures have transformed this country in the 30 years between my adolescence and my middle age. That, and the general success of the measures against drink driving, are why I see no reason to surrender to the fact that much of Britain now stank of rightly illegal cannabis.

But I have never been an habitual smoker, and I have not smoked anything in many, many years. Whereas six months ago, I was obese, and the battle is very much ongoing, as it no doubt always will be. My problem with the sugar tax is that I as an adult cannot be trusted to control my sugar intake yet a 10-year-old can be put on experimental puberty blockers that could no longer be used on sheep, while those of you with children cannot be trusted to control their sugar intake yet under certain circumstances a foster carer or the council could authorise their enrolment in that experiment. The blockers gave the sheep impaired memory, altered behaviour, enlarged amygdala, and lasting brain damage even once the treatment had stopped. Virtually all sheep in Britain end up in the human food chain. Think on.