Comments on: You will be next

By: Access Hypnotherapy

Access Hypnotherapy — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 14:36:28 +0000

The thing that gets me is how everyone has gone so pc about cigarette smoking – starting at government level. And yet, we as a nation still gratefully accept the tax money from the cigarette distributors……
That’s just ever so slightly hypocritical.

By: Grandad

Grandad — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 11:45:13 +0000

Gluaistean – Third key up from the botom left of your keyboard – Caps Lock – I think it may be stuck. OK. So you are taking me up on the bloke giving a cigarette to a child? Your comment comparing that to crack cocaine is just the kind of ill-informed, over dramatised rhetoric that I would expect from an anti-smoker. I assume you are an anti? Could you please provide data that proves that “nicotine is one of the most addictive substances around”? Addictive – yes, but get things in perspective, for fuck’s sake.

By: GLUAISTEAN

GLUAISTEAN — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 04:58:05 +0000

THE PROBLEM IS THAT NICOTINE IS ONE OF THE MOST ADDICTIVE SUBSTANCES AROUND – WOULD YOU CONDONE GIVING A THREE YEAR OLD ‘JUST ONE’ HIT OF CRACK COCAINE FOR INSTANCE????

By: jedrzej

jedrzej — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 17:57:07 +0000

@tt
“I fondly remember the Soviet Union. Wish it would return.”
Very funny, like.

By: Kirk M

Kirk M — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 01:01:43 +0000

“The anti-smoking movement started in the States [where else?!]”

So what do you expect from a country that was basically founded by a puritanical theocracy? You know, the kind that beat their breasts with their bibles (King James version of course), gnashed their teeth at the fact that everything including breathing was a sin. That sex was a vile, horrible thing (it was a wonder we ever survived past the first generation) and those that smoked or drank were doomed to burn in hell for all eternity? That anyone one who wasn’t white, Anglo-Saxon protestant was a barbarian, a savage, a heathen and no better than an animal? (hell, our founding fathers slaughtered most of the natives of this land just because they were heathens and savages and, more importantly, in the way).

My country was settled by those idiots, morons and crackpots who were kicked out of all the good countries. Kicked out so far that they had to come all the way over here before they thought they were safe (which obviously wasn’t far enough as the folks from all the good countries still came over here and took pot shots at them).

I think we should just ban America. I mean really, any country that would come up with the idea of political correctness deserves to be banned–and I live here!

Sorry…I’ve been constipated all week and I’m in a real baaad mood!

By: Ian

Ian — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 17:49:19 +0000

The New Yorker, 17th September 1984
“The last cigarette smokers in America were located in a box canyon south of Donner Pass in the High Sierra by 2 federal tobacco agents in a helicopter who spotted little smoke puffs just before noon. The district chief called in the ground team & 6 men, members of a crack anti-smoking joggers unit, moved across the terrain, surrounding & subduing them with tear gas. There were 5 people in their mid-40′s who’d been on the run since the adoption of the 28th Amendment. The chief snatched an empty pack of Marlboro’s & said “Look at this! This warning has been there for decades! What does it take to make you understand?” The smokers knew that the end was near. They’d lost radio contact with the only other band of smokers they knew; 5 writers holed up in an Oakland apartment. Among the personal effects were 4 empty packs, slit open, the blank insides covered with handwriting. They were letters to Lindsay & Matt from their mother. They read: “I never thot it wld come to this…those yrs as ashtrays vanished fr parties & old pals made sarc remarks & FAA crackd down… Down to 1 cart… In 50s it was diffrnt, we all smokd… Food, sex, then smoke…theyre closing in… Reminded me of when yr dad turnd me in… Knew he was nut but didnt know he was creep… Goodbye. Love, Mother. “The 5 smokers were sentenced to write 20,000 words on the topic “Personal Integrity”. The mother was reunited with her children. One night, she saved them from death by pulling them back from the path of a speeding car. Her husband, who had just been telling her she could stand to lose some weight, was killed instantly, however”.

By: chas

chas — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 16:14:05 +0000

If the Government want to stop children from smoking they should change the law to make it more difficult for under 18s to smoke.
MPs voted NOT to make proxy purchasing of cigarettes illegal, so parents can buy cigarettes and give them to their children.
It is NOT illegal for somebody under 18 to BUY cigarettes, it is only illegal to sell them to under 18s.
I believe that the minimum age for smoking is something like 3yo. Am I correct?

By: Daniel McKnight

Daniel McKnight — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 14:53:26 +0000

Have you read the article by Konrad Jamrozik? It makes no sense.... Its almost as if he pulls big important deadly numbers out of his ass to scare folks into not worrying about where he's getting his numbers and calculations from. http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/330/7495/812

By: Grandad

Grandad — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 14:45:03 +0000

Marcphisto – It’s anyone’s quess at the moment as to who is winning – Orwell or Huxley?

Cap’n – I think they are trying to introduce that kind of shite here. Why do the fuckers here have to copy everybody?

Thrifty – Brave New World, my arse. I’m going down fighting.

By: Thriftcriminal

Thriftcriminal — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 13:24:34 +0000

Brave new world Grandad, be good and take your Soma.