Banning smoking forever

[Richey Edwards]

1 minute ago, Jacksgranda said:

I had an aunt and uncle and that was all they smoked.

These boyos, if I remember correctly - 

It's a death that's worse than fate.

[Steve_Wilkos]

This is too woke, even for me.

If people want to smoke, let them, you fascist.

[Melanius Mullarkey]

48 minutes ago, Jacksgranda said:

I remember buying a packet and opening it at one end and thinking, ah the filters must be on the other end.

 

[parsforlife]

I don't agree with this in principle and in practice I can't see it working.

However the thought of middle aged guys hanging outside shops trying to get someone older to go buy them fags amuses me,  therefore I'm in.

[eindhovendee]

I stopped smoking after in 2013 after 35 years, I loved it but was smoking between 40 and 50 a day and knew that it was time give up, Id sometimes light a fag while I was already smoking one, I did live in Tenerife at the time so was able to afford it.

Also old school with playing football, played Saturday and Sunday, serious stuff on a Saturday meant you didn't have a half time fag.

First trip to Tenerife with the football team around 89/90 we all started smoking these. About 50p for 200 and you couldn't speak for 3 days after smoking them 

I'd buy any teenager as many as they wanted.

[Cosmic Joe]

Keep increasing the taxes and ring-fence them to the NHS. They'll eventually shift to vaping. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Or crime. 

 

[Cosmic Joe]

2 hours ago, oaksoft said:

 I need a hobby!

Have you ever considered making an absolute tit of yourself on the Covid thread? 

[The_Kincardine]

22 minutes ago, eindhovendee said:

I stopped smoking after in 2013 after 35 years, I loved it but was smoking between 40 and 50 a day and knew that it was time give up, Id sometimes light a fag while I was already smoking one, I did live in Tenerife at the time so was able to afford it.

Also old school with playing football, played Saturday and Sunday, serious stuff on a Saturday meant you didn't have a half time fag.

First trip to Tenerife with the football team around 89/90 we all started smoking these. About 50p for 200 and you couldn't speak for 3 days after smoking them 

I'd buy any teenager as many as they wanted.

Decent enough and certainly cheap but not in the same league as the doyen of cigarettes - unfiltered Gitanes.  

[Jacksgranda]

2 minutes ago, The_Kincardine said:

Decent enough and certainly cheap but not in the same league as the doyen of cigarettes - unfiltered Gitanes.  

They were a smoke and a half!

[Melanius Mullarkey]

Just now, Jacksgranda said:

They were a smoke and a half!

So we’re Berkeley King Size.

Must have been about a foot long.

[btb]

7 hours ago, Day of the Lords said:

I don't agree with an outright ban here - partly because I enjoy a very occasional tab with a drink, but also because it would be expensive and difficult to enforce. 

That said, it would be hilarious to see the same arseholes who were making up shite about driving to Carlisle to buy cheaper Frosty Jack making up similar stories of daring border crossings to buy 40 Lambert and Butler. 

Saint Murns central midfield pairing for a spell in the mid-80s.

[DiegoDiego]

I think a complete ban is most likely a terrible idea, but a nordic alcohol-style solution where you can only buy from a small number of government run monopolies is something I could see happening.

[BFTD]

I can't imagine there'll be much more of a black market, considering of-age smokers will be supplied with legal fags 'til they all die, and the industry will make sure the youngsters get hooked on their cool fluorescent vape fluids that taste like sweeties.

Not quite as bold a move as the headlines would imply; just a shift in product focus.

[Thane of Cawdor]

2 hours ago, Melanius Mullarkay said:

I remember buying a packet and opening it at one end and thinking, ah the filters must be on the other end.

 

Once in a pub in the Bigg Market and watched an old guy light the filter end of his tab. Not a unique occurrence, but most people realise quickly what they've done and stop. Not this old boy, he just sucked heroically until he had fully burnt the filter. I did think I ought to tell him but, instead, watched in stunned fascination and admiration at his commitment. 

[Melanius Mullarkey]

42 minutes ago, Thane of Cawdor said:

Once in a pub in the Bigg Market and watched an old guy light the filter end of his tab. Not a unique occurrence, but most people realise quickly what they've done and stop. Not this old boy, he just sucked heroically until he had fully burnt the filter. I did think I ought to tell him but, instead, watched in stunned fascination and admiration at his commitment. 

The Bigg Market will do that to a man.

[Lex]

Yep it’s inevitable. Ban the sale of smoking products to anyone born after 2010. Won’t vanish in our lifetimes but it will be a very niche, disgusting pursuit.

[Derry Alli]

5 hours ago, Melanius Mullarkay said:

, a Benny Hedgehog 

[Binos]

10 hours ago, ICTChris said:

New Zealand has introduced legislation today that aims to outlaw smoking completely in the country.  Under the new laws, anyone aged 14 or under now will never be legally able to buy cigarettes or tobacco products.  This will raise the minimum age to buy tobacco until it is effectively outlawed.

Public health campaigners have welcomed the news, calling it a "game-changer" and world leading proposal.  Others have been more cautious, pointing out that proposals to reduce nicotine in legally available cigarettes could hit poorer people hardest and the danger of black market tobacco proliferating - tobacco smuggling by organised crime has increased in recent years in New Zealand.  There is also a disparity between smoking rates among European New Zealanders and the Maori and Pacific Islander communities, meaning that the latter communities will be hit harder by the measures.

Would P&Bers agree with this approach to tobacco in this country?

Are any P&Bers in New Zealand and worried about their 13 year old never being able to buy loads of ciggies?

Would any P&Bers like to join me in setting up a huge illegal tobacco smuggling operation between here and Dunedin?

The world is just going to be full of decrepit old people being looked after in nursing homes

[Bigmouth Strikes Again]

Is this Jacinda bully woman some kind of hero on here?

Thank you.

[Jim McLean's Ghost]

11 minutes ago, Binos said:

The world is just going to be full of decrepit old people being looked after in nursing homes

You will be getting packed into your suicide pod at age 80

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