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Steve ray:
Time to STUB this thread out? :lol:
Silvery Thing:
I reckon a simple solution is to just shoot all smokers :? End of filthy habit and end of problem :wink: :roll:
P16LET:
Silvery Thing
--- Quote ---I reckon a simple solution is to just shoot all smokers :? End of filthy habit and end of problem :wink: :roll:
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There is a distinct danger of me repeating myself, but here goes....firstly, Why??....Why do smokers perpetually find themselves at the sticky end of all the worlds ills...because believe me, if it can be blamed on smoking it will......for example...
The NHS are refusing to treat smokers as just about everything now is deemed a smoking related illness/disease....however, nothing is ever said about the thousands of drug addicts or drink drivers that burden the NHS year in, year out.....all this in spite of the fact that it's in part the revenue from smoking that perpetuates the NHS funding!!
I can now be fined for lighting up in my own vehicle, if the police see fit to do so, as it is percieved to be a distraction and increases the possibility of an accident as I may remove my hands from the wheel....if that's the case, perhaps we should also ban car stereos (..unless they have invented telepathic ones now?!), transporting children (...as squabbling kids in the back are probably the biggest distraction of all) or GPS systems?! all of which can fall in the same category...but no, easier to persecute smokers....again. :(
...but then of course little is ever said of the benefits of the humble cigarette....the millions of pounds of sponsorship that has been poured into sports events over the years....Malboro and JPS in motor racing...Embassy Snooker Chmpionship....and your very own Camel Trophy...OMG, would you believe it...it's a tobacco company! :shock:
.....and research has just started into why smokers recover quicker following operations....far more so than non-smokers. :shock:
So, for once, give us a break.....it has been said more than once in this thread that no-one is having a go at smokers (...although the last post kinda nullifies this)...but alas the whole persecution thing is wearing a bit thin now....
:(
davidlandy:
cigs going into air intakes is plausible
the volvo fh has the intake on the n/s and its really high up - you gota go some to get a fag in there , even on a left hooker.
Scania R cab as far as i remember doesnt even have the intake up the cab rear
cant remember how the DAFs look
even if a fag did go in the paper filter wouldnt burn for long surely
Lord Shagg-Pyle:
--- Quote from: "P16LET" ---Silvery Thing
--- Quote ---I reckon a simple solution is to just shoot all smokers :? End of filthy habit and end of problem :wink: :roll:
--- End quote ---
There is a distinct danger of me repeating myself, but here goes....firstly, Why??....Why do smokers perpetually find themselves at the sticky end of all the worlds ills...because believe me, if it can be blamed on smoking it will......for example...
The NHS are refusing to treat smokers as just about everything now is deemed a smoking related illness/disease....however, nothing is ever said about the thousands of drug addicts or drink drivers that burden the NHS year in, year out.....all this in spite of the fact that it's in part the revenue from smoking that perpetuates the NHS funding!!
I can now be fined for lighting up in my own vehicle, if the police see fit to do so, as it is percieved to be a distraction and increases the possibility of an accident as I may remove my hands from the wheel....if that's the case, perhaps we should also ban car stereos (..unless they have invented telepathic ones now?!), transporting children (...as squabbling kids in the back are probably the biggest distraction of all) or GPS systems?! all of which can fall in the same category...but no, easier to persecute smokers....again. :(
...but then of course little is ever said of the benefits of the humble cigarette....the millions of pounds of sponsorship that has been poured into sports events over the years....Malboro and JPS in motor racing...Embassy Snooker Chmpionship....and your very own Camel Trophy...OMG, would you believe it...it's a tobacco company! :shock:
.....and research has just started into why smokers recover quicker following operations....far more so than non-smokers. :shock:
So, for once, give us a break.....it has been said more than once in this thread that no-one is having a go at smokers (...although the last post kinda nullifies this)...but alas the whole persecution thing is wearing a bit thin now....
:(
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Tolerance of others or rather the lack of it is one of the biggest problems in the World today.
I am not proud of the fact that I smoke, but its my choice. I also like to drink beer, eat food that is supposedly bad for me and I drive a 4x4. 75% of my likes, I probably share in common with most of the forum users, but does that make me a lesser person?
Since the ban came in, I now have to smoke outside any pub that I choose to go to. As a result of that, I have met a Native Canadian Indian who told me about the history of his race, an 85 year old woman who told me of her childhood in India, a BBC journalist and numerous other very interesting people. Not that that makes smoking any better.
As I mentioned in an earlier reply on this thread, I have had to deal with numerous reports of flytipping, but nobody sees a thing. The same goes for burglaries and muggings, but again nobody sees what went on.
But, Oh My God! Someone drops a fag end and all Hell breaks loose! We have people saying they are prepared to thump someone!
No, I don't agree with littering, but lets give it a rest now.
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