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.
Nice on JP👍
i gave up smoking over 6yrs ago.
kept getting abcesses and chest injections due to smoking 20 a day,
since stopping havent had either.
You may find your sense of smell and taste return and put on a bit of weight.
you may smell up to six and half stone!!!
😁
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swell up.
maybe smell a bit.
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Nah, he will probably smell less MNC,
You can tell a smoker from six feet away …
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Yes, I’m looking forward to the foreigners arriving for their two weeks of holidays.
The British especially will sit there scowling and tut-tutting when we happily light up on the terraces outside of the bars.
If you don’t like it either sit inside, or even better, fuck off home.
I’ve been smoking since I was old enough to steal packets of cigarettes from the newsagents before my morning paper round.
Benson’s here are around €7 a packet.
I know that you pay around £17 in the UK.
And the fucking government there wants to charge extra taxes on what they call “The Tobacco Giants”.
The government is the tobacco giant.
Good morning!
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Morning TaC.
20 B&H gold are now £19.81.
€7 is an absolute bargain.
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Fuck’s sake!
I will be buying 2 cartons today (we get a free half bottle of vodka with 400 fags brought).
The price is 158 euros.
That’s 7,90 a packet.
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When I started riding mopeds in 1981, 20 B&H were the same price as a gallon of 2*, about 80p.
Today, 5L of shit e10 works out around half the price of a pack of 20.
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The “tobacco giants” are like the “evil oil giants” (despite not one having a UK refinery!)
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More nanny state by government and civil serpents, that don’t know how the world work..
No-one in the long history or the world has ever procured banned or illegal items before…
Then I’m not surprised when this country’s leader is Mr charisma Rodney starmer,he just smokes small brown,smelly cigarillos, that explode in his fat face.
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And yet they want 16 year olds to be able to vote.
If we’re talking about young people being able to do things that are seriously harmful to them, giving them the opportunity to elect Labour / Green politicians is gonna do much more lasting damage than a few L&Bs behind the bike-sheds.
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I bet rayner let the boys finger her behind the bike sheds for a L&B or two
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Just a finger? She could probably have slotted her entire Hove flat up there and kept it hidden from HMRC
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Got off the weed in March 2023 after 42 years, and other than one pissed up smoke last year I stayed off. All thanks to a vape. But suddenly vapes are bad, so must be controlled, taxed and slagged off.
Or, I suspect, must be slagged off, pilloried and supply chain controlled by the state so taxing them can be justified and implemented.
Cunts.
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Even as a post-smoker ale drinker, there used to be nowt better ehen I was younger than some summer pints of high-quality lager down by the river and some ciggies…bliss!
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My elder kid vapes…I do worry that he’s inhaling horrid chınky chemicals.
Are the liquids regulated?
Does any cunter know?
Genuine question.
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Sorry to say Thomas that most of them are made in Chy-na so all bets are off.
Look on the bright side,think on all the stuff we used to breathe in from coal fires etc…times have changed.
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chinkys like smoking.
probably why theyre yellow.
An the french too, they think its glamourous.
smoking and surrendering,
they love it.
Smoking a pipe is now almost exstinct.
Rarely see it.
shame, i liked the smell of pipe tobacco.
yanks hate smoking.
since the death of the Marlboro Man.
But. wasnt smoking that killed him.
was injuns.
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As far as I am aware, smokers disproportionately pay in to the NHS and are subsidising everybody else through the tax and duty they pay. I imagine fat people and the increasing proportion of elderly folk is a far greater burden on the health service than smoking.
In any case, this is a gross intrusion into people’s liberties. What will the state ban next? Why stop at tobacco when there’s booze, hamburgers, sweets…?
Besides which, the stench of marijuana is now ubiquitous in our urban areas and the middle classes are known to be using cocaine regularly. They don’t even enforce the rules they already have on the statute books, the useless cunts. And bearing in mind there is pressure to follow Canada, the US and other countries and decriminalise cannabis – which is also bad for your lungs and causes a mixture of laziness and psychosis – this just seems inconsistent and a waste of time.
Also, how about all the homosexuals bumming each other senseless in woodland car parks, under bridges and in depraved all-night raves, spreading diseases such as monkey pox and AIDS? Will the state ban that? No they won’t. They will in fact continue to heavily promote and celebrate it.
I think it’s a case of useless politicians wanting to be seen doing something. Anything. For no particularly necessary reason. So it doesn’t look so much like they spend their entire time not really doing anything other than arguing and grifting and being a total waste of oxygen.
I suspect this will make young people want to get their hands on fags, when smoking rates have been falling for years. And there will be no end of corner shops willing to supply them with dodgy ones.
I have been a smoker myself over the years but find it easy to stop when I want to. I am currently using heated tobacco which is big in the Emirates, and better than vaping in my opinion. It doesn’t leave any smell but is more like smoking, possibly better for you. But I don’t care what other people think. I eat lots of fruit and veg and exercise daily. I am in good shape. If I want to balance that out with some pleasures then that is my business. I am a tax paying Englishman so just sod off and stop telling me what to do. Who do these people even think they are? It isn’t as if they are wise saints is it?
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Not that this new rule affects me, but the principle is a problem.
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Even though i dont smoke anymore i dont beg.
rudge others enjoying a smoke.
Some people get a bit nazi once theyve stopped.
Let people enjoy a packet of fags,
theyve paid enough for them.
the brown fingered, wheezing, smelly cunts.
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Perhaps that’s why those fucking dolts in Westminster are bringing in digital I.d?
Otherwise how the fuck are they going to enforce this new law?
I don’t see Barbara at tesco or Mohamed in the corner shop/brothel asking for some cunts passport when they want 20 B&H.
More and more rules,intrusion and Big Government shite.
High tar Oven.
Good morning.
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Smoking, vaping and drinking are all fine by me.
But I draw the line at cocaine.
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I draw the line at Fentynol, after seeing it take the life of George Floyd.
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Always had you down as a snuff man, Geordie.
🤧
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Nanny state ” Government”.Piss off you wankers.
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It’s fine for confused teenagers to go under the knife and have breasts and testicles removed, and then be condemned to a life of powerful hormone drugs, followed by inevitable regreat and suicide. But it isn’t ok for them to smoke, which might cause health problems in approximately 50 years’ time.
Regime Derangement.
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smokers.
ive another name for you…
MURDERERS.
dont deny it.
you fuckers killed Roy Castle.
All got together and blew your pousonous fumes into Roys innocent virginal lungs.
4 things Roy liked
1. Tapdancing (early onset downs syndrome)
2. blowing that trumpet like kier starmer blows a ukrainian rentboy
3. other peoples fag smoke
4. records getting broken.
you knew this but killed him anyway.
ill never forgive you for that.
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I saw Roy Castle in cabaret in Harrogate in the late 70s.
He brought a set of bagpipes on stage and asked the audience to shout out a tune for him to play. Someone shouted ‘The Fight of the Bumblebee’, and fuck me he played it. Yes, on the bagpipes.
And I know it wasn’t staged, because it was me who shouted it out.
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‘FLIGHT’ not ‘fight’.
You’re losing it, you old cunt.
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Geordie ; you reminded me of my favourite line in a sitcom, ever.
Black Books. Bernard is hurrying down a street, his intention to stop his ‘summer girlfriend’ from moving way. He arrives beneath her upstairs-flat window ; all this time he’s been ‘wearing’ a big accordion.
She asks him firstly why he’s there.
‘I’ve come to win you back by serenading you’
Then she points at the instrument and asks ‘WHY an accordion?’
‘Because I can’t play the guitar’ ; …. ‘I can’t play this either, but I thought it would be less obvious’
🙂
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10 No6 1972 – 11p
If worked a Saturday morning overtime I could afford something quality..!
10 embassy – 12p.
Happy days, nu fucking Muslim shite those days. The cunts kept their heads down..!
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Never smoked,never wanted to 🚬 but I don’t begrudge anyone else spending their money on them should they wish…apart from the lazy bone idle who haven’t done a day’s work in their life who in effect are getting them free 🧐… anyway there’s a new fag brand that’s more prevelant than bensons in today’s society… trans blend 🏳️🌈…smoke on that
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