The white paper on public health.

Presents an editorial on public health. Description of a white paper called "Choosing Health: making healthy choices," that presents the English government's approach to tackling a broad range of public health challenges from smoking, obesity, and drinking to mental and sexual health; Need for several points to be considered in order for this approach to work; How the white paper fails to address the inequalities that purport to be the driving force behind it; Reluctance of the government to take its own medicine.