7th MAY 1956

If you've seen any of my previous posts, particularly that of the 23rd of April, you will know that I immensly dislike smokers. The concept of smoking disugsts me. Seeing people walk around with toxic fumes surrounding their heads is not an attractive image for me. For that reason, today's event highly amused me.

On this day in 1956, the British Health Minister Robert (Robin) Hugh Turton rejected the notion for a  government campaign agaisnts smoking. It was Mr. Turton's understanding that no ill-effects had acutally been proven to eventuate from smoking. Indeed, Mr. Turton further believed that there was no link between smoking and lung cancer and that even if there was, this had not been clincally proven.

It is therefore my opinion that, not only was it highly likely that Mr. Turton himself was a smoker, he was also probably an idiot. And yet he remained the Minister for Health for two years.

Two years!

My, my what was the world like back then?!

Hazy probably...





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