But you have to worry whether too much minty nutrition could make you obese

A lot of comments have been made already on the European Commission’s proposed revisions to the tobacco products directive and a lot more will follow, but none has cut to the heart of the matter as incisively as one by Naomi McAuliffe.

Writing on the Guardian’s Comment is free page, McAuliffe asks a question about a hitherto neglected but vital aspect of the Commission’s attack on menthol cigarettes: ‘They may not be cool, and they may even kill, but how would I meet my nutritional needs if the EU bans such minty goodness?’

And it gets better at: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/dec/20/brussels-borg-menthol-cigarettes