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Health Bill

My Lords, I was at school during the war, and about the only thing I learned—because we were distracted by the probability of getting killed—was how to smoke. So I am rather sad that the one thing I learned at school should now be so heinously voted against. My colleague’s amendment is sensible and reasonable. I do not see why we should be killjoys in what we are doing today. Of course, no one pretends that smoking is good for you but, if it gives pleasure to people, we should not takes their pleasure away.