Comments on: Under The Counter: Cigarettes, Plastic Bags And Porn

By: Stuart Holmes

Stuart Holmes — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 11:27:49 +0000

Well done Dawn Primarolo, regarding the forecasted one billion tobacco deaths this century and that 90% of smokers become addicted while impressionable children.

There is a fundamental moral obligation to protect children from harm!
And to protect freedom! Yes “Freedom” - Addiction is slavery!

google Actors smoking children click on Friction TV

Stuart Holmes,
Anti Smoking Campaigner.

By: John Blake

John Blake — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 23:07:07 +0000

It is reckoned that at least 30 per-cent of the cigarettes and tabacco smoked in the UK are brought in illegally and sold on the black market.
I remember someone mentioning that pubs and their staff and owners could get into serious trouble with the Customs and Excise people if they “did someone a favour” and put cartons of cigarettes BEHIND the bar.

If the Customs people did enter the pub and wanted receipts for ALL the cigarettes, the failure to produce receipts for ALL of the cigarettes could result in action being taken against those involved, and, if found guilty the might face a possible prison sentence.

This under the counter approach to cigarettes,and porn seems rather backward to me.Today, unlike forty or fifty years ago cigarette packets give clear information about the danger to health and even shocking photos of people with cancer. Nothing has stopped people buying cigarettes and there continues to be a surprising amount of young people puffing away everywhere.
Yes, it can be a difficult habit to break once you start,but with all the publicity about the health hazards with smoking it has made my personal opinion of smokers drop considerably.I know many non-smokers who think the same way.
There is nothing smart or cool about smoking unless you dream is the mortuary slab.

By: yampster

yampster — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 20:23:51 +0000

6
Anorak

Not much point buying a pack of 20 in that case

By: Anorak

Anorak — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 17:59:04 +0000

I think anyone seen lighting up in public should be shot in the face. This will learn ‘em…

By: Patch

Patch — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 17:34:34 +0000

I will train the shop assistants to snarl ‘You dirty, dirty bastard! Away with you!’ every time they sell some cigarettes.

By: Cheshire Set

Cheshire Set — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 17:34:12 +0000

1 karen

We had an ice cream van which used to park outside the school everyday and flog singles in brown paper bags! My son goes to the same school and low and behold last week there it was again - same bloke, same van…nasty

By: Annie_M

Annie_M — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 17:32:49 +0000

lepers were required to wear bells and cry
“Unclean! Unclean!”
The good ‘ole days….

By: yampster

yampster — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 17:31:25 +0000

I am opening a business constructing two storey counters for tobacconists. Anyone want to get in on the ground floor?

By: Karen

Karen — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 17:25:43 +0000

At school we used to buy singles from the van - and it used to have to park in the woods so the polis wouldn’t bust us. Happy days.