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Posted by Alan J. Flavell on 11/17/82 11:29
On Sat, 15 Oct 2005, Toby Inkster wrote:
> Have you read Ben Elton's /High Society/. His argument goes along the
> lines of...
[...]
> - With the extra tax money from the sale of drugs, the
> government could put more money into drug rehabilitation
> programmes.
And how much money from the existing taxes on tobacco and alcohol
are the present guvmint putting into effective rehabilitation schemes
for people who misuse those particular substances, riddle me that?
Nice idea as a theory, but doesn't seem to be working out. You'd
think that at least people who were intelligent and educated enough to
get into university would know better, but (outside of the buildings -
where smoking is, thank goodness, banned) the number of young students
who can be seen (and smelled) smoking around here ("here" being
Glasgow Univ, for those who can't read headers) is not exactly
impressive, quite apart from the quantity of smokers' droppings which
are always to be seen in the streets and parks.
I'm not sure that I want to see similar results with numerous other
substances.
What's this got to do with HTML?
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