Recipe for ill health

IN trying to deter people from buying alcohol and cigarettes in the North, Finance Minister Brian Lenihan will merely force them to ease their post-budget blues in health-damaging ways.

Fri, 11 Dec, 2009 - 00:00

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People would have been better sweetened by more fairly taxing the rich and leaving social welfare alone.

Dr Florence Craven

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