We've all been told to tighten our belts and there is no doubt that the lowest paid among us will suffer the most in the spending cuts round.
So why on earth is so much public money still being thrown into that black hole of Tobacco Control?
Forest - the group that represents 12 million consumers - points out in the link above that scam charities and a myriad of smoke-free organisations are sucking the public purse dry and getting millions of our cash from Govt to lobby Govt to - errr - do what the Govt wants.
It's time this stopped. We ALL have to tighten our belts including those in the anti-smoking industry who leech and lie for a living.