 Hitchens went on to explore this issue in more detail in his book "A Brief History of Crime".A chapter in "The Abolition of Britain" on the contrast between the public health policies on lung cancer and the public health policies on AIDS was left out of the first edition of the book, after Hitchens was advised that airing thoughts critical of homosexual acts would bring such criticism on it that it would distract attention from the book's main message.It was reinstated in the paperback and American editions, with an explanatory preface.