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| name       = In 20-0-3
| cover      = Joe_Jackson in 20-0-3 cover.jpg
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| type       = single
| artist     = [[Joe Jackson (musician)|Joe Jackson]]
| album      =
| released   = 16 February 2004
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| recorded   = 2004
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| genre      = [[rock music|Rock]]
| length     =
| label      = Great Big Island
| writer     = Joe Jackson
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| prev_title = Stranger Than You
| prev_year  = 2001
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'''"In 20-0-3"''' is a song by the British musician [[Joe Jackson (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, stating that '[[passive smoking|secondhand smoke]]' was killing 1,000 New Yorkers per year.
{{quote|"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!"<ref name=songfacts>{{cite web|title="In 20-0-3"|url=http://www.last.fm/music/Joe+Jackson/_/In+20-0-3|website=www.last.fm|first=Joe|last=Jackson|access-date=2 January 2017}}</ref>|}}
"In 20-0-3" was released in partnership with [[FOREST]] (Freedom Organisation for the Right to Enjoy Smoking Tobacco) and was made available to order on Jackson's website. The proceeds of the song went towards fighting smoking bans. Jackson told ''[[The Independent]]'' in 2004, "I'm one of those songwriters who writes about anything and everything. In this case, I wrote a song about something that made me angry."<ref>{{cite news |last=Guest |first=Katy |date=2 March 2004 |title=Joe Jackson gets the blues over smoke-free bars |newspaper=[[The Independent]] |page=8}}</ref>
Jackson actively campaigned against [[smoking ban]]s in both the United States and the United Kingdom. In 2005 he published the pamphlet ''The Smoking Issue''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.forestonline.org/output/Page303.asp |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080508022124/http://www.forestonline.org/output/Page303.asp |archive-date=8 May 2008 |title=The Smoking Issue |publisher=Web.archive.org |date=8 May 2008 |access-date=10 April 2014}}</ref> and in 2007 the essay ''Smoke, Lies and the Nanny State''.<ref>{{cite web|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121202083043/http://joejackson.com/smoke-lies.pdf|url=http://www.joejackson.com/smoke-lies.pdf|format=PDF|title=Smoke, Lies and the Nanny State|publisher=Joejackson.com|archive-date=2 December 2012|access-date=4 December 2015}}</ref>
== Personnel ==
; Musicians
* Joe Jackson – piano, organ, vocals
* Steve Hampton – guitar, bass
* Dave Houghton – drums
; Production
* Joe Jackson – arrangements, production
* Julie Gardner – recording and mixing engineer
* Bob Bruce – recording engineer
== References ==
{{Reflist}}
== External links ==
* [http://www.jj-archive.net/nonalbum.html Non-album tracks] information at [http://www.jj-archive.net ''The Joe Jackson Archive'']
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