In the spring of 1942 Dr Lennox Johnston, a Merseyside GP, took the train to London, intending to pluck Winston Churchill’s cigar from his lips and stamp it out. The anti-smoking campaigner, frustrated by his failure to convince the medical establishment to take his cause seriously, felt that a strong public protest was needed. Arriving in the capital he first paid a visit to Sylvia Pankhurst for advice about being arrested, finding her ‘both intrigued and approving of his project’.
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