As a former smoker for the last 2 months (and becoming a full-on misanthrope in the process), I feel your pain on the stupidity of such bans. I lived two decades in Seattle and you should see the contempt on the faces of people when I stepped outside to have a cig. Meanwhile the smell of weed was more pervasive than London fog, and in the last decade, there are folks smoking meth and shooting up heroin with impunity. I think that politicians want cigarettes gone because they make people smarter.
I don't smoke, can't abide the smell and fag smoke triggers my asthma. But I would defend your right to choose to smoke to the death (yours, not mine, obvs 🤣). This ban is halfwitted nonsense. Not as bad as Useless's hate crime bollox, but close.
But, don't smokers do it to "keep my weight down"? That what all the erm....chubby smokers I know tell me so in theory it should be encouraged 🤣😂
Vote Tory and we'll stop people from lighting up after their stressful 'undocumented trip across the Channel. (At least we'll ask them not to....and maybe offer them a nicotine patch.)
There is no escape from the Law of Unintended Consequences. As has already been noted, the immediate being an unusually bloodless occupation for organized criminals-in-training. And if this sort of thing catches on, and tobacco smoking becomes illegal in enough places to make cigarettes and cigars (pipes, anyone?) actually scarce, the games may begin in earnest. But wait! Won't the Alexander wannabeess catch on to the fact that weed smoking is... smoking? But I'm rambling. Be well, sir.
Don't know how it is in England but here in the US the "scolds" (good word) against tobacco will also tell you if asked that smoking dope (marijuana) is harmless. If there is doubt at 71 I've had many young people say this when we speak of tobacco and dope.
Unlike Alexander, there are so many new worlds of necessities worth conquering that the tears they create are drowning us instead.
As a former smoker for the last 2 months (and becoming a full-on misanthrope in the process), I feel your pain on the stupidity of such bans. I lived two decades in Seattle and you should see the contempt on the faces of people when I stepped outside to have a cig. Meanwhile the smell of weed was more pervasive than London fog, and in the last decade, there are folks smoking meth and shooting up heroin with impunity. I think that politicians want cigarettes gone because they make people smarter.
I don't smoke, can't abide the smell and fag smoke triggers my asthma. But I would defend your right to choose to smoke to the death (yours, not mine, obvs 🤣). This ban is halfwitted nonsense. Not as bad as Useless's hate crime bollox, but close.
But, don't smokers do it to "keep my weight down"? That what all the erm....chubby smokers I know tell me so in theory it should be encouraged 🤣😂
Vote Tory and we'll stop people from lighting up after their stressful 'undocumented trip across the Channel. (At least we'll ask them not to....and maybe offer them a nicotine patch.)
There is no escape from the Law of Unintended Consequences. As has already been noted, the immediate being an unusually bloodless occupation for organized criminals-in-training. And if this sort of thing catches on, and tobacco smoking becomes illegal in enough places to make cigarettes and cigars (pipes, anyone?) actually scarce, the games may begin in earnest. But wait! Won't the Alexander wannabeess catch on to the fact that weed smoking is... smoking? But I'm rambling. Be well, sir.
Don't know how it is in England but here in the US the "scolds" (good word) against tobacco will also tell you if asked that smoking dope (marijuana) is harmless. If there is doubt at 71 I've had many young people say this when we speak of tobacco and dope.
But the Black Market...think of the profits!