Fascist chocolate tax
Dr David Walker's call for a heavy tax on chocolate to combat obesity (your report, 5 March) gives new meaning to the term "health fascism".
It appears that the doctor is unaware of ideas and concepts like intelligence, free will, freedom of choice and individual responsibility and that several of his colleagues in the medical profession are not aware of these things either, given their support for nanny-statist measures on alcohol and "junk" foods.
The logical conclusion of such an approach to health is a totalitarian state and that has never been healthy, no matter how much medical jargon is used to dress it up.
BRUCE CRICHTON
Victoria Road
Falkirk, Stirlingshire
Dr David Walker's argument for taxing chocolate is flaky and full of holes. He asserts that chocolate must be one of the major causes of obesity. I would suggest a bigger factor is sitting about watching television and doing little exercise. In fact, medics advise us that eating chocolate can be beneficial.
NIALL WALKER
Princes Gardens
Glasgow
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