Off Topic Fags and booze

So the budget put fags up, apparently they are stopping menthol fags, in 10 packs and anything under 30g of tobacco being sold for the roll up crew.

Does this mean folk will just get more from the black market?

Do we live in a free country or a dictatorship?

 

I'll try to find another runner.
We do not live in a democracy, we haven't for years.

 

I think this cigs thing was being introduced by the EU, it suggest to me that even when we leave, although they won't tell us what to do, we'll probably just copy them anyway.

 

Well they certainly have you over a barrel
Taken tax off us

 

Hopefully it stops kids smoking.

 

They're all vaping now mate.

That's the new cool thing.

 

That's ****ing mad. If a kid had done that in school I'd have put a cig out of his forehead to brand him a ****.

I'm out of touch like. I wish they'd been more expensive when I was at school. Through my teen years I paid about 3 euros for 20 so about 2 quid.

 

Bollocks to fags. Cigars are a much better way to smoke!

 

You had to smoke or get bullied at my school.

 

If you've got a spare 45 minutes.

 

Yep, they all at it at my youngin's school.

 

I smoke for enjoyment. Not because I am addicted. I tend to make time for it in an evening.

 

And you want your breath to smell like you've been chewing on a rotten Tuna.

 

I don't smoke but drink. A question is are cigars better than fags, I have tried to get my dad to stop smoking with chewing gum nicottele, them other vapour type fags , and tried rollies with tips to save him money, but he is back to john players £7.29 a frigging packet !.

 

We know you drink, you're a cocktail man.

Special brew, toilet duck and cream soda... aka The Bloody Monty

 

What's vaping, is it a cooler sounding name for e-cigarettes? I always associated it with weed, if I ever got back into that I'd vaporise it rather than smoke it, much better for your body if not your brain.

 

Yeah, just e-cigs mate, I have one for when I go out because I often have a temptation to reach for a cig after a few beers, so that stops me doing that and stops me smelling like an ashtray, but I don't use it daily.

As for vaping weed, it's probably much better depending on the quality of the manufacture. The decarboxylation process occurs, then the THC can be tampered with on a molecular level, when in oil form and the world's your oyster.

I have a medically advanced unique strain of oil at home, it's spent about 18 months being altered in a lab. Not for vaping, it's for research.

 

Get it vaped mate, treat yourself. Nobody will mind.

I know what you mean about the ashtray smell, apart from chest pains the stink is the main thing I don't miss. Especially the morning after a drinking session when you've smoked too much and it tastes like some burnt animal died in your mouth.

 

Yeah I had a fag last summer and hated it, I'll never touch another one now.

 

I like a roll-up with a beer on an evening.

I don't smoke during the day but when I go down for a pint I like a roll-up.

It seems they're trying to stigmatise a dying societal habit while it's already dying out.

I get that they want to kill the habit but what's the rush? In a generation's time, it'll be ancient history.