Going Up In Smoke
Friends and readers. Come March 26th smoking in public places will be banned. We at PiltonSucks.com welcome this and would encourage all smokers to try and give up the dreaded weed.
The health of the nation is important as without your health it is very difficult to achieve anything. We realise that smoking is very addictive and is extremly hard for some people to pack it in. By banning smoking in public places this may be the incentive that you need to stop.
On the other hand we are in danger if we are not careful of being told how to live our lives and along with the fact that the government rakes in a huge amount of tax from the sale of tobbaco there is a feeling of hypocracy involved. Given that the policy has the desired effect and cuts down on smoke related illnesses where does the lost revenue come from.
Here is a thought.If smokers take the plunge and ultimatly give up and therefore possibly live longer, who pays for their pensions when they reach retirement age.  So why does the government not ban the sale of alcohol and help to put a stop to alcohol related deaths and the social problems that over indulgance brings with it. Why not ban gambling and save punters from them selves or are these social activities regarded as harmless vices.
Alcohol and gambling destroys families leaving a trail of destruction in its path but nothing is done to prevent this. Quite the opposite our noble councillor and foreign holiday queen Elizabeth Maginnis supports the idea in fact is a leading advocate of bringing a cassino down to the waterfront, strange is it not. Never mind do not worry both gambling and drinking will not be banned and nor it should be.
All we are saying is were does government control of our lives stop, George Orwell described a vision of control in his novel 1984. We are fast reaching that point were our noble rulers decided everything that is both bad and good for us. all we have the pleasure of is paying for it one way or another.
Two things in life are certain death and taxes thank god the third thing is not certain-continued mis-rule from the peoples party.