Anti-smoking is bad for your moral health!

Amongst the plethora of SIFs (‘Single Issue Fanatics’ ^TM  - the late, great Bernard Levin) perhaps the most odious in my eyes are the anti-smoking Gauleiters.  They exemplify the very worst of human nature in that they seize upon a not unreasonable proposition that sometimes smoking might be bad for the health of some people whilst ignoring the obvious truth that the biggest risk of dying comes from living!

These swivel-eyed SIFs have managed to bamboozle the Australian government into passing a law that removes all logos from cigarette packaging replacing them with nasty pictures of diseased lungs and eyes.  If, say, some ghastly rock group proposed putting such pictures on the cover of their ‘music’ album no doubt some other gang of SIFs would instantly leap up and down because of the effect it would have on their little kiddie-winkies!  I stress the word ‘would’ because SIFs are never nuanced in their use of statistics. 

Thus, at a ‘couldn’t care less’ stroke, other peoples’ property rights, the cartons belong to the manufacturers, are infringed; their freedom of speech, that is, their right to advertise their own brands is invalidated; and their customers’ rights to be able to pick and choose their preferred cigarette is denied – and all with the meek acquiescence of the Australian ‘Cocklecarrots’ who, being in some cases the descendents of ill-judged convicts, should have known better.  It is only a matter of time before smoking is treated as a crime and then some people might complain but it will be too late. 

There-in lies a lesson for all those minded to listen to the bleatings of the Dowlers, the McCanns, the Mosleys, the Grants and the rest of all those with claims, some more justified than others, against the scrofulous hacks of Canary Wharf who wish to cement their  bitter recriminations into law.  It always begins well with the best of all possible intentions and ends up in cold, immutable, heavy-handed, not to say, heavy-fisted, tyranny.

Comments

[Andra]

You are not allowed to actually SEE cigarettes in Australia any more. All nicotine products are hidden behind drop down shelves and it's all sold in brown paper bags or something.
Very daring and gay 30's.
I am thinking of taking it up! I rather fancy that air of mystery. Might buy a long black holder.
Hasn't stopped anybody I know who already smokes, they just buy pretty covers for the nasty boxes go about their business, which has to be held by rushing out to the bushes, 100 yards or so away from the "legitimate" population, every time the urge overcomes the poor deluded creatures.
What's that you say? Why don't they just ban the rotten things? Oh, but what about the many millions of dollars cigarettes earn in tax? Just hide them then, and we'll ignore the whole affair.
Next!
Oh, getting warmer, is it? Let's have a carbon tax. That'll fix that.
Well, aren't we moving forward?

[David Duff]

Such cynicism in one so young!

[Sari Kuismanen]

Most of the time i did not mind all those anti smoker which they really don't know why many people really making an hard time to quit smoking in some part of the world specially Sweden they are using now electronic cigarette which many of them reduces the amount of nicotine they can get in a normal tobacco.