The best way to stop smoking is to never start. However, just in case our wonderful Government has taken that burden off the shoulders of anyone who turns 18 on or after 1/1/2009 by passing a law making it illegal for them to purchase tobacco.
Of course, no one has ever bought anything ever that they weren’t old enough to buy, not ever. Be interesting to see how that’s going to be policed.
This also raises the question of how the loss of revenue, increasing year on year, from sales of tobacco will be balanced out. By savings for our NHS who would be treating fewer and fewer folk for smoking related illnesses? That’s a very long term prospect and I can’t be bothered to crunch numbers.
In the short term, some of the revenue will be clawed back by taxing vape devices and products, which is ironic as vaping was lauded as the answer to quitting tobacco and, at one time, your GP could prescribe them FOC, along with nicotine patches and gum, to help you quit the evil weed.
I’ll add another link separately about vape tax.
As a footnote, I have been a 20 a day smoker from the age of 15, and I’m 72 now. I cut down to 10/12 simply because cigarettes are unbelievably expensive.
However, I have been advised, strongly, to stop for medical reasons, I won’t go into detail, but I’m proud to say that I have not had a cigarette since 13:00 on 16th April, and I don’t want one, either. However, I do love my new vape, or crack pipe as the Berserker calls it. I am allowed to vape, btw.
Nominated by Jeezum Priest.
Wonder what flavour JP is vaping?
Summer Dream? Blue Razz Lemonade?
Down the park on his electric scooter giving the middle finger to the local PCSO.
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JPs from sheffield so probably a Hendersons Relish flavour.
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When you’re as old as me, you tend to cotton on to newfangled ideas and sense immediately they’re legalised confidence tricksters around. I tend to stick with other cunts on here who know the ropes.
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Vaping is like a serial killer trying to give up murder.
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