Ok. Here is the problem: I like to smoke a pipe. The Uk Government has now banned smoking in all public enclosed places. The import taxes on tobacco are high. The range of pipe tobacco i can buy in UK, whilst Ok, is meagre in comparison with the USA. Even to the extent that some pipe tobacco actually manufactured here in the UK is not available here...but is in the USA!! (Tobaciana Esoterica). Even in the apparently consumer friendly times the internet is not much of a help either. I should give up my pleasure and do as im told. You know it, I now have to face it. Governments are in control of another aspect of what I choose to do with my life.
Today here in Uk it is now being proposed that all alcohol should come with warning labels on the product. Voluntarily at the moment. But I wonder if another pleasureable pastime is now beginning a process of socio political decline and in 2030 all drinking will be banned except in highly regulated circumstances. And yet the term 'choices' is a key political term here!