How typical that political parties look to their future hand-outs from the tobacco companies rather than real-life issues such as the long term effects of smoking and tobacco-related illness.

 Once again we see a major UK political party willing to sacrifice voters in order to remain popular with business.

 We've seen Labour bow down to tobacco, now we see the Tories attempting appeasement too. Considering the enormous amount of bad press the tobacco industry has received, I would have thought any sane person would wish to dissociate themselves from them. 

But there's the rub, huh. Are the politicians sane?