
42: The war on smokers, with Claire Fox
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Smoking
Smoking has become increasingly unpopular, as you say, clare. But the fact that smokers are a minority in a dwindling minority is always going to be a big political problem. They haven't got any political oce and they've never stood up for themselves. A lot of them are self hating. About half of hem would like to quit in theory,. So yer, theyre very ther a marginalized group who don't really even identify themselves as being a political group - so it's very difficult to stand up against this. I did also want to know the anti workin class internalism of this. Because whenever it comes up, i mean she shared with the gambling stuff, which
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