How it Works

The government wants to crack down on smoking  - "denormalise" it is a favoured term - so it hands out cash to anti-smoking organisation such as ASH who use this money to fund a project called "Capitalising on Smokefree: the Way Forward" which in turn, it seems, is a response to a government consultation on future tobacco-related legislation.

When the results of this "consultation" are published, one would have to assume that it will, broadly speaking, run along the lines recommended by ASH. After all, that's what the government is paying for.

Simon Clark has the details.