Sale of smoking products

[EMDEE]

What is this nonsense?

http://news.uk.msn.com/Article.aspx?cp- ... id=7875887

[westport321]

this should be a concern to smokers and nonsmokers alike, ( i am an ex smoker). Ask yourself, where will the politicians recoup the taxes they loose when no one smokes any more. You can bet they wont go without that revenue. Wait and see, the taxes will then go on frys turkish delight and mince pies and anything else the nanny state deems unhealthy.

[general jack o'niell]

where did you get a copy of my hymn sheet? i've been singing that song for years but the non smoking brigade seem to think that a saving of a few hundred million will offset the loss of 8.5 billion in tax from smokers. i pay the exchequer the best part of £40 a week as it is for my passion. i could stop smoking and spend the money on private health insurance, but as i already know theres not a single scheme would take me and its nothing to do with my smoking. its in the small print under pre-existing conditions. i'm not even talking about the two biggies, a simple thing like the fact that a visit from a doctor when i fell off a roof in 1969 doesn't appear on my records but if i claimed for a bad back the insurance company would find it somewhere. next we'll have to buy our fags in plain brown wrapper, in case we frighten other shoppers, or have a seperate private room that you go into to buy them, all supposing they can find shop assistants that aren't too taumatised to serve you. they'll be signin off seek if they have to serve you your usually 100 menthol twice a week. if all the revenue from tobacco had gone into the NHS over the years we'd have the best free health service in the world, just like they always claim we have. besides i'm giving my liver and kidneys when i go, that must be worth a pound or two? my liver and kidney function is always perfect in my regular tests, the pills i take in any one day would actually kill anyone else that took them in that amount and thats only the 24 paracetamol, theres another six that the same dose actually kills people who take them to commit siedyways. theres only the one kidley available mind, have to keep the other in case my son needs it, he was only born with the one.

how did i get from cigs under the counter to selling human organs?, oh yes, my gut and intestines are a lot like westminster, liable to contain parasites!!!!! knew there had to be a connection, soon they''ll be givin us smokers the heather mills treatment and yes we won't (finish it yourself)

[EMDEE]

So the cigarettes etc in the supermarkets are to be kept below the counter, when there are aisles full of alcohol that the youngsters can browse at their leisure. A bit of a double standard there?

Maybe the alcohol could be kept under the counter as well. (need to be a helluva big counter)

In fact, to protect the innocent children, and considering the current obsesion with obesity, why does the government not just pass legislation on food as well.

Then the supermarkets could just have one HOOROFA big counter and we could just go in with a list and ask the staff to take the required items out from below it. (if we're allowed to buy them)

Nanny state?

[westport321]

was going to continue my rant about the health police/nanny state but then i wont stop,will end up getting myself all kinds of POd and need more meds to move again, no i will just shut my mouth.