Fortunately I won't be Here...

...in 11 years

SMOKING is set to be stamped out in Britain in just the next 11 years, according to leaked government plans.

In 11 years, I'll have been living abroad for 5. I wish I could leave this authoritarian shithole a lot sooner, but simply won't be able to afford it for another seven years, so it looks like I'll be spending that time being badgered by our glorious leaders, to quit doing something that is legal and I rather enjoy doing

Brits will stub out their last cigarettes by 2030 - after being encouraged to either quit or move to vaping, it was reported last night.

Britons will be doing no such thing. Even if smoking is banned outright, people will still be doing it. Britons will not be stubbing out their last cigarette, Britons will be paying ever increasing taxes to the Government, getting pushed out of more and more public areas, criminalising themselves by buying tobacco on the black market and smoking it in designated non-smoking areas, being punished, fined and eventually imprisoned, but they won't be quitting smoking

And nobody is going to be 'encouraged' to quit or turn to vaping. The word they are looking for there is, 'Bullied'.

And tobacco giants will be forced to help smokers make the switch instead of cash-strapped local health services, according to plans seen by the Daily Mail.

Cash strapped? Pull the other one! The thirteen billion pounds plus per year they get out of smokers seems to be enough to offer free healthcare to the entire bloody world, so what's a few quid in smoking cessation services?

Considering nobody gives a damn about smoking cessation anymore and use of the services has been tanking year on year, the cost is likely to be negligible anyway. If folk want to quit these days and don't fancy the cold turkey method, they just buy an e-cig. Patches are sooo 1990's

Cigarette packets - already plastered in health warnings and graphic images - will also be stuffed with a leaflets giving advice on how to quit, ministers will say.

Jeez! If you're not going to be deterred by all the medical porn adorning the pack, why are you going to bother reading some hectoring leaflet inside it? I hope there's a few different leaflets; it will give the kids something else to collect, alongside the graphic images

It will all form a pledge to make the UK smoke-free by 2030 being unveiled by Health Secretary Matt Hancock.

Matt hancock can kiss my lilly white arse. Who does he think he is to make a pledge to stop me smoking? Or anyone else who enjoys tobacco. Notice the wording? The article started off with 'encouraged' to quit. Now it's, Make the UK smoke free

MAKE

But health chiefs now want to "finish the job" by ridding the country of smoking for good.

'Health Cheifs'. Unelected quangocrats who cause more harm to society than any smoker ever did

"For the 15 per cent of adults who are not yet smoke-free, smoking is the leading cause of ill-health and early death, and a major cause of inequalities.

I hate that term, 'Smoke free'. It doesn't even mean anything. That whole sentence doesn't even mean anything

I'm not smoke free and I don't intend to be. I'll be long gone to warmer climes before this smoke free paradise becomes a reality, but I'm sure I'll be badgered and bullied by health chiefs until I go. They had just better not get too close

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