Friday, 9th March, 2007

This is how it began with the smokers (remember sweet cigarettes?):

BBC: Shows 'encourage teen drinking'

Teenagers may be encouraged to drink more because television soap operas are "awash with alcohol", according to a survey published in The Food Magazine.

I've said it before and I'll say it again, mark my words: it starts with think of the children, and will end with the banning of alcohol from pubs.

Welcome to the healthy, new, smoke-free, carbon-neutral, low-fat, tea-total, meat-is-murder, asterisk-the-swear-words, Puritan age.