In 20-0-3

"In 20-0-3"
Single by Joe Jackson
Released 16 February 2004
Recorded 2004
Genre Rock
Label Great Big Island
Songwriter(s) Joe Jackson
Joe Jackson singles chronology
"Stranger Than You"
(2001)		 "In 20-0-3"
(2004)

"Stranger Than You"
(2001)		 "In 20-0-3"
(2004)

"In 20-0-3" is a song by the British musician Joe Jackson. It was self-distributed via his personal website and not available on any album.

The lyrics of "In 20-0-3" criticizes the decision of New York mayor Michael Bloomberg in the year 2003 to ban smoking in every bar and club in the city, claiming that 'secondhand smoke' was killing 1,000 New Yorkers per year.

"I don't feel like a place is civilised unless they let me smoke, and if they don't let me smoke I feel really insulted. I hate the whole nanny state thing. OK, they're entitled to inform us about things, but after that leave us alone!"[1]

Jackson actively campaigned against smoking bans in both the United States and the United Kingdom. In 2005 he published the pamphlet The Smoking Issue[2] publishing a 2005 pamphlet (The Smoking Issue) and in 2007 the essay Smoke, Lies and the Nanny State.[3]

The proceeds of this song went towards fighting smoking bans.

Personnel

Musicians
Production

References

  1. ↑ Jackson, Joe. ""In 20-0-3"". www.last.fm. Retrieved 2 January 2017.
  2. ↑ "The Smoking Issue". Web.archive.org. 8 May 2008. Archived from the original on 8 May 2008. Retrieved 10 April 2014.
  3. ↑ "Smoke, Lies and the Nanny State" (PDF). Joejackson.com. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 December 2012. Retrieved 4 December 2015.
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