Since the cigarette packet warning thing took 40 something years, let's
start working on it, Karleen!  On "Today in history" over the weekend, BBC
repeated an article from 1957 that announced smoking causes lung cancer.
Government spokesmen said there were no plans to ban smoking in cinemas and
buses; members of the public on the whole said they weren't worried at all,
and the tobacco industry person said it was "merely a matter of opinion".
From that mindset to today's - I guess it took a lot of dedicated people.

Of course it would be even better if we could inform and empower all women
about breastfeeding and reduce misinformation (another post!), but this
would be an extra safety net.

It might be easier to get the supermarkets to agree to put up a sign than to
get the manufacturers to put the warning labels on their cans.... but I
think businesses band together on the whole.

Jacquie Nutt
South Africa
(Still waiting for our draft baby food legislation to be passed, after the
period for comments closed on 26 February amidst a storm of
manufacturers/advertisers/baby magazine protests.  Also wondering which
countries represented on Lactnet have baby food laws based on the
International Code of Marketing of Breast Milk Substitutes.)

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