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pete,
that picture of you on the operating table looks grim.
And I imagine it must have been difficult to type your messages too.
Nah they got some lackey called terence to do it for me
@Bad Manners wrote:
Be gone Kate.
Be gone yourself you looney. Why do you keep calling me Kate?
@sir Actor wrote:
that picture of you on the operating table looks grim.
And I imagine it must have been difficult to type your messages too.
funny !
poor pete, was probably dreaming of his next googleDon’t some ex smokers get right on ya broncioli :lol:
@toybulldog wrote:
@sir Actor wrote:
that picture of you on the operating table looks grim.
And I imagine it must have been difficult to type your messages too.
funny !
poor pete, was probably dreaming of his next googleyou cant all be imagining it’s a pic of me they took then decided to present it in some way, you cant all be that mental ? Although it wouldnt suprise me :?
@~Tickled Pink~ wrote:
@chickenman wrote:
The UK will next week become the first European country to introduce graphic images on cigarette packets to warn about the dangers of smoking.
The 15 different images will include pictures of a diseased lung and heart surgery being performed.
They will start to be introduced on 1 October, but it will be another year before all packets contain them as existing stock will have to be sold.
Will it make any difference ?No, it won’t make the slightest difference. Smokers will only learn when it is too late because most are very stubborn and ignorant.
ignorant… which im not, maybe wasnae til i was in my 20’s when yeah it click’d it will damaged my health….. its adictive and as said by BM in post after ur’s its harder to kick.. but like he says, smokers pay far more taxes than the normal joe soap… we’re maybe a drain on the NHS, but no more than hyproconducts and the amount of people who misuse the NHS health service… I tried and failed many times to give up, I watched family memebrs whom have died of cancer, whom may I add never smoked..!! Cancer of all kinds r not directly the key factor in the disease, chemicals, and other factor also… Yes maybe a small facor, but if U way up the real statics of non-smokers with cancer to smokers with cancer… the pre out leads the later..
I never once said it wasn’t addictive. I never once said it wasn’t hard. Please stop missing the point. What I said was that most smokers are ignorant because if a picture of a diseased ridden lung on your cigarette packet dosen’t give you the motivation to quit, then you are obviously ignoring it. Willpower is all you need. I have had family members die from lung cancer too, they too have ignored medical advice and then it was too late. I am not insulting smokers, I am just making the point that alot of smokers are ignorant to the fact that they may develop lung cancer, because if they weren’t they would find the willpower to quit and have a better quality of life.
The thing I find most puzzling about the whole ”smoking” thing is – essentially this is a matter for each individual to decide on for themselves and yet ‘smokers’ are villified and publicly humiliated by what is in fact an extremely vociferous anti-smoking lobby.
If you drink alchohol (whatever flavour) sometimes to excess, this is somehow tolerated by most people. It is even considered something to boast about (“God I got hammered last night, but we had a fantastic time”). Poisoning oneself with ethyl alchohol doesn’t somehow seem to attract too much condemnation.
If you are a drug user – especially the so-called ‘harmless’ ones like ecstacy or cannabis – you may attract disapproval but not get attacked outright on all sorts of moral grounds. Point out that possession or use of these chemicals is a criminal offence and suddenly people spring out of the woodwork to defend their use as ”harmless’ or not as bad as smoking.
If you admit to smoking cigarettes then the whole world and its dog jump on you with howls of moral outrage.
At the moment, the purchase of tobacco is still legal. Smoking them is still legal (other than in ”banned” places). Tobacco carries punitive rates of Tax, the benefit of which accrues to the Treasury and is applied to support public spending.
it strikes me that there is a fundamental flaw in the anti-smoking argument. All the time the Government continues to permit the sale and use of tobacco and receives a huge amount of Tax revenue from this sale, people will continue to smoke tobacco. If they declare it illegal (and give up billions in Tax receipts as a consequence) then chances are that the amount of tobacco smoked in the country will drop enormously.
Perhaps THIS is what the anti-smokers should lobby for.
There are few things more irritating than the sanctimonious ex-smoker, holding up their clean lungs like a pair of curtains washed in a superior brand of soap powder.
The NHS is raped more by the drunk than the smoker..so let’s tap that myth out on the ashtray.
Folk should stop spending their lives in fearful abstention from the things that bring them pleasure..they will never evade death’s randomly applied sickle so might as well live it to the fullest potential by smoking, drinking and fornicating till lungs collapse, livers rot and genitals erode.
Die happy.
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