I'll spark a smokey treat to that. Even if I do have to step outside....
 

Well said! Couldn't agree more!
 

My throat is raw my teeth are brown but by god I am happy. Got my vote Pat. See you in the funny pages...x
 

and now a chain of supermarkets are offering people in 'deprived' areas £12.50 to buy groceries instead of buying fags
I dunno about you but carrots are a bastard to light

and more importantly

how fucking condescending !!!


 




 

come to Berlin Fishy ....we don't give a fuck here .See you tomorrow .
 

as my buddy from Spratton Lew Bear would sing Keep your clean air
 

 

I'm developing a rather paranoid theory. Think of all the advances in science and rational thought in general since people started smoking. You could almost say that the arrival of a smoking culture in Britain marked (or at least happily co-incided with) the true end of the Middle Ages and their dismal mindset of fear, superstition, rampant inequality, rapacious religions and xenophobia. And now, in an age where newspaper columnists openly and idiotically consider "the Fourteenth Century Model", they want to stop us smoking again. One consequence is already with us: just like in the Middle Ages, most public spaces in the UK now smell of shit.

Well done, everybody!
 

smoke em if ya got em pat
 

If ya ain't got 'em, well you've hit rock bottom.
 

I have no comment to make about smoking - but I will say DAMN is that new Shakespeare and the Bible CD fantastic or what!?
 

This anti smoking campaign is everywhere. There's an upside. When I go to a bar, it is half empty because there is a large crowd outside enjoying a smoke. We socialize in ways that we couldn't if we sat at our little tables smoking alone. It has become a new social club. The campaign has backfired.

Doubling cigarette prices is an inconvenience that only serves to line the pockets of the tobacco industry, there's a larger plan here, I think, from the tobacco lobbyists, and a clever one. Turn the anti-smoking lobby in on itself. The joke's on them really. Big tobacco wins, the smokers become a fraternity and the anti-smokers gain nothing but clean air in a bar. Well, technically the joke's on everyone. But as long as I have my smoky treat, I'm dandy.