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UK: progress markers? A piece of cake

d.simpson@iath.org

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Spotted at a health related press launch in Westminster recently was Sir George Young, a member of parliament who in 1981 suffered an "acute myocalifano infarction". As experienced tobacco control advocates will know, this sudden cutting-off of political power often afflicts good health ministers who take a strong line on tobacco. It is named after an early victim, US health secretary Joe Califano, who was sacked amid a fury of tobacco industry outrage after making clear to a delighted world conference on tobacco and health in 1979 that he meant business on tobacco control.

Sir George’s own event struck soon after he had secured permission from his cabinet level boss to initiate legislation if the tobacco companies, with which he had been forced into fruitless "voluntary agreement" negotiations, did not agree significant reductions on promotion. The night he was moved to a much less important post in the department of . . . [Full text of this article]