Now as all lovers of the free market know, there is no such thing as a buckshee lunch – that sort of buzz costs & the price is more tar in your lungs than on the average Breton beach. Of course its highly addictive; every smoker is aware of that – why do you think regular users of crack-cocaine refuse to cut their drug of choice with the contents of half a pack of snouts? So if every smoker is aware of the addictive nature of tobacco – whatever happened to ‘caveat emptor’?

Anyway, lets face it, tobacco companies kill their customers quicker than even your average Japanese motorcycle manufacturer turns repeat buyers into Nagasaki pie & ketchup. This is a public service – especially in bloated welfare state Euroland where the cost of an individual’s health is paid by the ever-diminishing pool of those who actually work & aren’t scrounging off the state. If you die young the state does not incur the expense long term geriatric care. It has been actually proven that the cost of a terminal cancer patient in middle age is significantly less than the burden long term care later on. So you are in fact doing the public purse a favour by smoking as well as not spending your mid to late eighties smelling of urine.

Think about this if you will – if tobacco was a bigger threat to western societies than satel-lout television they would ban it. However, the bean counters have all done their sums & come to the same conclusion – governments raise far more in tax revenues on tobacco sales than cancer care costs them. That is why they don’t ban it. If fact, tobacco companies should be commended for performing such a valuable public service

Anyway, sod this for a game of soldiers; I’m off for a couple of bracing snifters & kick start something large & Cuban while I check my stock prices. I catch up with you all tomorrow, in the meantime do society a favour, ‘ave a smoko …. it makes financial sense – plus you won’t have to worry about that under-funded pension scheme.