Cervical cancer injection for 12 year olds

Part of my point was the individual responsibility (not just in cervical cancers) and how much, in a health service with a limited budget, do we accept that we can be unaccounatble for our actions in the knowledge that the NHS will at least try to cure us? And how much should the individual be liable for their actions- if the NHS wasnt free at source, and we had to pay for our treatment, perhaps we would change the way we behaved?

Millions of people take a white stick out of a packet (on which there is a warning saying it can kill you) and smoke it- the majority of lung cancers are related to smoking yet we accept the NHS role in treating and curing where we possible those with lung cancer but this is an almost wholly preventable disease (again Mary, not ALL lung cancers are related to smoking but most are)

And then when you stop and think, the list grows.

And yes, I do know what its like to lose someone with cancer- Between Feb and April this year I watched my mum die of cancer and spent the last two days by her side as she chain stoked her way to a better place.

It is interesting to note that many primary care trusts and hospital trusts now withold certain operations if the patient is considered clinically obese and the result of the operation would be nullified by the patients lifestyle.

As for my other main point- PB picked it up. It has to start somewhere, the ascent from the moral abyss into which we have fallen, and by injecting teenage girls with something which they will be told prevents them from cervical cancers caused by the reasons I mentioned just seems to be the wrong end of the looking glass