Mark asks: Is it true that in Britain, you now have to have a license to smoke?? What in blazes is going on??
Some helpful government adviser type has suggested that people should have to be licensed to smoke, at a cost of £200/$400 per licence per year. So far as I'm aware this hasn't been taken up by government. Yet.
Doubtless it will come tho, with its associated Smoking Licence Czar and quango packed full of vastly overpaid and line-toeing ministerial wives and squeezes - this government is only concerned with money. Money going out of the pockets of ordinary working people and into their own pockets.
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Whatever next? grrrr ..love Jan xx
Thanks for the futher explaination, Jane. It appears that when government gets larger and more intrusive, it needs more revenue anyway it can get it.
Off-topic again: Barack Obama seems to have a Ronald Reagan type likability about him. Don't be surprised that he is the next President of the USA. I don't buy the talk that we are too racist to elect someone like him. Although I don't particularly like Obama's politics, I think we are advanced enough as a society to elect someone of color as President.
Well..... I last had a cigarette 3 years ago. I should be sanctimonious about it but even now, there are times when I could kill for one.
This nanny state government is loading a gun to be pointed at themselves, as Jane has said, income generation hidden behind health. next? Global warming.
All politicos are f*****g shysters, there isn't an openly honest one among them.
I'm off to lie down........
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