Tobacco Advertising: A Three-Pipe Problem

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- Tobacco kills 110,000 people a year.

- In 1965 the Labour government banned TV advertising of cigarettes; in 1991 the Conservative government banned TV advertising of cigars; successive governments have demanded that all other advertisements carry health warnings that get ever bigger.

- The Government funds not one, not two, but at least four quangos to encourage people to give up tobacco - and then spends millions more running its own advertising campaigns against it.

- The Government is so caring about its people's health that it sets itself targets - to cut the number of adults who smoke by one third within a few years; and to ut by a third the …