Death:Where Is Thy Sting?

I write today about an addiction. That addiction is for Tobacco, for smoking, for chewing, for inhaling the deadly carcinogens which have been proven, time and time again, which this addiction holds, promises and delivers.

As with all things, I must be honest. I smoked. Either cigarettes or pipe tobacco, for almost thirty five years. I smoked when in the Merchant Navy, I smoked when living in South Africa, when buying a thirty pack of smokes, was cheaper than when buying duty-free in an airport shop. I tried to give up once when my eldest brother came visiting, along with my mother; but failed when in a restaurant filled with smoke. 

I determined to leave South Africa when I saw the early signs of the movement towards Black Majority rule in that once wonderful country, and; when seeing the vast difference between South Africa prices for a pack of cigarettes, and for the same in Great Britain & Northern Ireland, a rise of some 250%. This for a family man with a growing family, was something I literally could not afford.

So I, along with my wife, stopped smoking, just like that. It was not easy, for almost three weeks, I was like a bear with a sore head, but, as I wrote, I rediscover my senses of taste and of smell; I was free of a killer addiction, because: along with the nicotine comes the deadly fumes which almost guarantee cancer.

I note that this ridiculous So-Called Labour Government is proceeding with the same plan excavated by the Tories, which attempts to ban anyone of a certain age from buying cigarettes. Don’t they realise that ordinary British reaction to any Authority trying to ban anything is to make that same thing more desirable.

The only proven method, as far as I can tell, to limit cigarette smoking is to price it almost beyond the average smoker’s reach in terms of pure cash. 

Smoking is an addiction, pure and simple. The whole anti-smoking industry, and it IS an INDUSTRY, is based upon the fallacy that human beings can be weaned off of this deadly addiction slowly, either by Vaping, or by the purchase of various filters which can be ‘proven’ to lessen the urge to to smoke.

GB&NI’s biggest killer is tobacco, and, unfortunately, the ONLY WAY to come off that deadly habit is to stop buying those deadly sticks at one shot. Your wallet, your family, your very life and future depends upon it!