Britons gobble more candy per capita (8 oz. weekly) than any other people in the world. As a result, they also have more toothaches than mostwhich has no apparent effect on candy consumption but causes a perpetual headache in the higher echelons of government, since the great majority of Britain's population gets its teeth fixed for nominal fees by the National Health Service. Though it collects taxes on every other luxury from dancing to death, the government has never levied a tax on sweets, as the British call their favorite vice.
Last week Chancellor of the Exchequer Selwyn Lloyd, a...
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