clipped from www.independent.co.uk “Smokers’ groups and manufacturers have condemned government proposals to clamp down on cigarette vending machines and packets of 10 in an attempt to stop children and young people smoking.”

The NannyNazis are rapidly running out of ideas in their campaign to “de-normalise“ smoking.

These latest ideas are just fucking daft. They won’t have any effect on youth smoking, other than to make it more appealing. It’ll be a challenge to get your hands on a packet of fags - and the guy with the fags will get “respect”.

I’ve never once said that smoking is a good thing, indeed I think we should use all the available existing laws to stop young people from buying tobacco.

We have good enough laws in place - just enforce them. Any retailer found to be selling fags to minors should lose their licence to sell tobacco - no questions, no appeals just take the licence away. And the same goes for drink, by the way.

Scotland has increased the legal age to buy tobacco to 18 - good I say.  But once you reach 18 then you’re free to choose whether you smoke or not - in exactly the same way you decide to climb mountains or not or drive very fast motor bikes or not.

These are all risky activities but we should all have the choice about which risks we want to take in life.

As far as banning fag-machines is concerned I couldn’t give a fuck! They’re a complete rip-off anyway and I’d be delighted to see the greedy bastards who operate them out of business.

No branding? So what, I don’t smoke the packet so a plain white one is fine by me. Actually leaves more room to doodle on it - unless they cover it with pictures of dying people or diseased organs.

Many great inventions started as a scribble on the back of a fag packet!

Hiding them under the counter? Sounds OK to me…

…Or am I supposed to feel like a dirty old pervert when I go into a shop and surreptitiously ask for 20 in a plain bag please!

This is de-normalisation at work.

So no, I’m not one of the pro-smokers complaining about the latest ravings. I don’t care - these measures are bound to be completely pointless and will do nothing to stop youngsters seeing smoking as ‘cool’.

And anyway, how will they roll a decent joint with out some baccy.

Maybe they’ll just skin-up with pure grass instead - looks like it’ll be easier for them to get a hold of than tobacco.

What was that about Lies, Damned Lies and Statistics?

This article from the BBC just about sums up the shit we’re being fed by the NuLabour NannyNazis.

BBC NEWS | Magazine | The facts in the way of a good story

OK, where do we start! If we need to ban people from having a smoke while they drive then we also need to:

It really is getting worrying. These fucking NannyNazis just don’t give up do they? Well I for one will carry on puffing away when I drive.

My old Uncle Johnny could roll a fag with one hand while driving a fucking huge tractor!! Now that’s a skill to admire.

“David Frost, a spokesman for the Local Authority Road Safety Officers’ Association, said: "Not only do you have to take your hand off the wheel whilst you find your cigarettes and light one, but one hand is permanently off the wheel for the five minutes or so whilst you smoke. This is a serious hazard."”

More shite from another useless Cooncil functionary - just empty my fucking bins, I don’t need advice on smoking from the likes of you! And so what if have my hands off the wheel for 5 minutes? I usually drive one-handed anyway.

I wouldn’t mind if there were hundreds of accidents caused by smokers but there’s not.

BID TO BAN SMOKING IN CARS - Top Stories - News - Mirror.co.uk

…not as we do!

Fucking typical, the leeches sitting in Strasbourg and Brussels only managed to keep their own smoking ban going for a month before giving up and ordering “sealed” smoking rooms for the European Parliament.

Why?

Because the ban, only implemented on 1st January, was widely ignored!

Well there’s a message for all we sheep who quietly went to the slaughter in Scotland last year. Perhaps if we’d all just ignored the ban then the idiots who rule us might have seen sense and implemented a more equitable law.

Absolute bans are always bad and we should have gone for a system whereby owners had to declare their premises as smoking or non-smoking - one or the other. A simple plaque outside the main entrance would have left the patron with a choice.

So England, not long for you!

You’ll soon get used to the sterile, empty pubs (before they close down), the huddles of piss-heads standing on the pavement and the stench of Body Odour so bad that many pubs and clubs in Scotland have to pump perfume into their air conditioning to make the place bearable!

Oh yes, so far we’ve seen a net increase of about 5% in tobacco consumption in Scotland - what an achievement!

We used to protest about things when I was a lad - now we just seem to accept anything from the dolts we vote into our parliaments. Time for a change methinks!

EU legislators disobey own smoking ban | Oddly Enough | Reuters.co.uk

OK, I fucking hate January so I refuse to communicate during this most miserable of months. All that fucking Christmas hype followed by a massive piss up and the biggest downer of the year - January.

Happy New Year…yeah, yeah

Still, I see the world is just as big a fucking mess as it was last year - killing, cheating…spying…

…The Scottish Executive are planning to do saliva swabs on kids in school to see if they’re being exposed to passive smoking (and what else I wonder?).

I sincerely hope that every right-minded parent refuses point-blank to give their consent to this utterly unacceptable intrusion into peoples’ private lives. What next, CCTV in our bedrooms to make sure we’re all screwing to the lastest Government guidelines. It’s just fucking ridiculous.

Of course when they detect the traces in little Johnny’s spit they’ll send round the Smoking Cessation Officer and the Five-a-day Adviser to give you a good telling off and put you on a “plan”.

That’s when you find out that Johnny has been having a sly spliff behind the bikesheds!

I didn’t really notice too much else in January because I hibernate mentally - I just can’t cope with the total misery that is January.

Well, except for the utterly pointless and vindictive execution of Saddam and his cronies. What was that supposed to achieve, apart from more bloodshed and grief? I really despair about the way our political masters seem hell-bent on leading us into disaster.

Anyway, my birthday soon and I like my birthday.