THE DAWN of a new year provides an opportunity to bring forward ways in which smokers can be accommodated, and the discrimination against one-in-three of our fellow citizens ended.
We could make a start by rejecting policies which lead to the social exclusion of smokers, and replace them with efforts to develop harmonious co-habitation between courteous smokers and tolerant non-smokers.
The 20th century has witnessed some of history's worst examples of prejudice and intolerance. So let us not end it by institutionalising the discrimination against smokers.
Let the approaching new millennium spur on our efforts to foster a climate of tolerance towards this country's 15 million adult smokers.
Martin Ball
Campaigns Director
FOREST
Audley House, 13 Palace Street, London SW1E 5HX
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