Punishment Tax

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This was taken from our local newspaper and I thought it was a very good point.

I am not shocked at all to see such a big increase for cigarettes because it is an easy source of revenue for Mr Brown.

I don’t know what this world, or country, is coming to. You can't do this, don't do that, prohibition 2007-style. You can drink alcohol from morning till the next morning. But light a fag and it's call in the heavy boys.

Non-smokers don't know what they are missing and those wimps that have smoked and are now non-smokers and the holier than thou brigade don't realise that they are more likely to get killed by a lung disease from car fumes, CO2 in the air they breathe and god knows what from the additives they eat.

So, in the words of an Army phrase, Carry on Smoking lads or, in a now obsolete phrase, put that in your pipe and smoke it.