Anyone notice all the smoking stories this week.
1 A fellow gets to be 100 having smoked since he was nine. good for him I say but of course all the health Nazis are saying what a bad example the old codger is.
2 A decorator gets fined for smoking in his van by a council snooper who says as a self employed business man its his place of work
3 Amy Whingebag spotted with a fag getting in a cab with a no smoking sign on the door, poor cow will no doubt be blamed for burning down the Hawley Arms next with a discarded dog end.
A more interesting debate took place on the letters pages of Metro where the fitness fascists whinged about how much smoking related illness costs the NHS. About £1.7 million quid a year apparently however smokers pay a whopping £12 billion quid a year in tax which kind of puts that in proportion. Smokers also tend to die earlier than non smokers so there is a saving there on pension payouts too.
I'm not defending smoking and I'm glad I managed to kick the habit but I'm sick of being lectured to by the health Nazis who want us all to stop smoking, drinking, eating eggs or whatever to save health service money. Everybody is going to die sometime and if it is smoking related how is that worse than having to pay out an extra 20 years more pension and then cough up for debilitating illness's of old age faced by tee total non smokers.
Of course now that smokers are on the ropes the health dictators are coming after booze what with all the talk of banning happy hours, warnings on bottles and raising the age to buy booze to 21. Yeah I don't like the binge drinking culture and the violence it spawns, but that is more to do with contemporary bar culture, education and lack of parental responsibility that having a few cheap drinks in a bar.
