Draconian Health Advice is a Step Too Far for me
When will this government leave smokers alone? When they’re all dead or smoking is outlawed, thats when…
Yet another Draconian policy has been announced today in the War Against Terrorist Smokers enjoying their Death Sticks in their own homes… I mean the cheek of them! This is seriously getting fucking ridiculous. If you want to smoke you should be left to it in your own home for fucks sake… you now can’t do it in public places so what the fuck is their problem??
I always figured they were taxed so highly in this shithole country because of their extra drain on the NHS but now you’re telling me that’s not the reason and you actually want people to stop?! I’ve got a good plan for you… ban them the fuck completely or stop poking smokers with a giant stick with your holier that thou approach to this whole debate, slowly taking away their rights to smoke. Rather than trick the general masses into voting for you again and THEN bang a smoking outlaw, just step up and don’t pussy out on your responsibilities and just say what the plan for the bigger picture is.
My own opinion is that smoking doesn’t kill, its the crap they add into tobacco to preserve it that kills, but rather than targeting that and reducing cigarettes shelf life to a week by saying “we want to cut the amount of pollutants in cigarettes”, its easier to keep people ignorant of this and use cigarettes as a blanket reason for people getting cancer. I mean for a Doctor its like a Get out of Jail free card if you tell him you’re a smoker and get cancer. It’s like me being able to say “I told you so” when you have a virus on your computer and aren’t using Firefox as your internet browser; it could be totally unrelated but if you’re not a PC expert, are you going to argue with a man that is? It can then go down as another Smoking related cancer case with no facts to back it up, bloating statistics and the lies they feed society.
Maybe thats a little jaded as a picture, but I’m sure its not far from the truth.
The BBC posed the question “will graphic images stop you smoking?” and the obvious response of “what a retarded question” is likely to be rejected and my response will be lost in the internet so here it is for you to read.
What next?! ‘Smoking KILLS’ down each smoke? A voice stating “Warning - smoking DOES kill” and other random “facts” every time you open the pack? Perhaps it should be mandatory for sellers to ask 3 times before handing them over if they really want them, then read off a health warning? Maybe we can even use the Draconian Cameras in cities to ridicule smokers into giving up by shouting random insults about their filthy habit at them!
This country gets better by the day… it really does…
To be honest I can foresee them using those fucking city camera’s in that way if they’re already warning people who drop litter, act unruly and are generally out of order. I can also see the mandatory health lecture every time you buy a pack of smokes here too.
Well the government here can fuck their own arsehole if they think they’re getting another penny in tax from cigarettes off me… not that I smoke any more, but if I did they could.
For smokers, think about these facts the next time you pay nearly £6 for 20 smokes in the UK.
- A flight to Spain, Belgium or even Turkey + 3000 cigarettes, your legal limit, costs at least half of what it would cost you to buy the equivalent cigarettes in the UK and Gordon Brown see’s fuck all of your hard earnt monies. Even borrowing enough to cover this off a loan shark is cheaper than buying smokes in the UK!
- Gordon Brown and his smug cunting face takes 80% of that £6 in tax, yet somehow the £2 billion a year in tax raised by smokers isn’t enough to a) help our shitty NHS out and support the smokers who are “such a burden” on it or b) enough for his to shut his fucking mouth and leave you alone to smoke in peace. These are the smug faces of those rubbing their hands together every time you buy a pack here in the UK :
- Gordon Brown is a massive cunt. And he’s Scottish. Do you really want to help fund and support him?
- Buying smokes of that dodgy geezer in the pub does not support terrorists and criminals unless his name is Bin Laden Ali and he has a roll of Semtex strapped to his chest, and even then you’re probably safe unless you spark up next to him.
- Smoking foreign cigarettes helps keep you educated by teaching you to read different languages and sometimes new characters and alphabets.
- If you don’t understand the language the warning is written in, you can’t die from the effects.
- Foreign fags are obviously better for you or else the country you bought them in would have as high tax on them as the UK does as their NHS bill isn’t as big as ours!
Facts. Every last one of them… 
phorenzik said
am August 30 2007 @ 12:35 pm
I’ve nearly gone a month without smoking now. It’s not getting any easier though. If anyone tells you it gets better over time they’re full of fucking shit.
Your post was excellent, and perfectly encapsulates my beliefs entirely.
Delmorpha said
am August 30 2007 @ 1:15 pm
Cheers bud, much appreciated… it would appear my comment has become one of the two comments they’ve rejected overnight or its still awaiting moderation. Fuck the BBC, they’re cunts anyway and I have the blog so they can eat shit if they’re not going to post my opinion. I did sign it Delmorpha and my location as Cyberspace, so maybe they thought I was promoting my blog or whatever… which I was, but fuck them either way…
Congratulations on a month though.. you’re right, I found it didn’t get easier until after the first 6 months, and even then you still have the occasional craving (I do now and I’ve not smoked in 4 years).
I’m so sick of them forcing further measures on smokers like they haven’t taken away enough civil liberties already by banning smoking in public. That’s enough for fucks sake, move on already. Lets tackle the chavs on our streets, the immigrants that slip through the net draining more out of the economy than the pocket full of smokers that do actually burden the NHS, or any one of the actual problems with this fuckhole country now.
WhippleSticks said
am August 30 2007 @ 4:03 pm
I remmember that advert warning against buying dodgy cigarettes. It ends up with them saying “this is Chris. He’s a real dodgy f*cker!” (or words to that effect.) I would of said somehting like “This is Crhis… He cuts your tobacco with 95% AIDS” or something that is more likely to put people off.
MacTheFork said
am August 30 2007 @ 4:44 pm
Tbh I think they already use cameras to ridicule smokers, I remember standing at some tube station (where it has been non-smoking for years) and was about to light up, suddenly an ethereal voice came over the loud speakers “Customers are reminded this is a non-smoking platform”. I could see people looking at me. Coincidence, I think not
Dr Hock said
am August 31 2007 @ 12:44 am
To quote Bill Hicks,
“Non-smokers, this is for you and you only. ready? NON SMOKERS DIE, EVERY DAY. Sleep tight”
Delmorpha said
am August 31 2007 @ 7:47 am
Good to see you’re alive Dr Hock, I was getting worried about you and you haven’t updated in a while!
I’m funnily enough about to quote that very same line in another article I’m writing about the positives of smoking. There’s too much negative press as it is, and I always like to root for the underdog..
DrHock said
am August 31 2007 @ 11:19 am
I am indeed alive and well and suffering from “holiday season” syndrome, where the mind wanders, creativity wains, time slows, peers fill up one’s free time with and life-stress multiplies.
September normally sorts things out.
Cunzy1 1 said
am September 5 2007 @ 4:06 pm
“To be honest I can foresee them using those fucking city camera’s in that way if they’re already warning people who drop litter, act unruly and are generally out of order. I can also see the mandatory health lecture every time you buy a pack of smokes here too.”
I fucking hope so because they aren’t using them to catch the gangs of chavs that stab 4 year olds because they aren’t in their ‘gang’.
I’ll tell you a story, one time I was in Canterbury in a taxi on the way home from the pub and I saw this eastern european guy getting properly beaten up by some uber chavs. Some proper acne ridden, greasy hair, flat faced, cap wearing cunts. You could tell they were called Gavin and Neil even from a moving vehicle. Anyway, the taxi driver pulls over up the road and phone’s the police and say there’s this Albanian guy (I don’t know how he knew the guy was Albanian) getting beaten up by the Towers. And they said “Yeah, we’re busy but it’s alright because we’ve got cameras there”.
Fucking lazy cunts. How are you going to identify some pikey chavvy cunty bastards from a camera when everyone these days is a pikey chavvy cunt.
I agree with you they should just outright ban smoking and just shoot anyone caught lighting up instead of pussy footing coercing you to give up. Like I want to go to the hospital at any other time other than when I’m injured to see a doctor to tell me that smoking is bad. That’s another hang out for the chavs. Hospitals, bowling alleys, corners, train stations and newsagents. Nuke the lot. Cunts.