AND your "positive" thinking about smoking ends when your very close relative dies because of forced passive smoking
While I am not a fan of smoking and actually love the fact I can go out to a bar, restaurant or dinner and not smell like a bonfire..... But I also believe in 'choice'....
Unfortunately now it seems, people cannot be held accountable for
choice anymore, no one forces anyone to smoke... there is a tax to try and deter smokers, unfortunately there is no clarity in what the taxes are used for and I would like to see a lot more clarity from governments that showed clearly the revenue generated from cig and alchohol taxation goes purely to the NHS... but it doesnt.....
It more often than not, gets used to pay bent MP's false and crooked expense claims...
Ultimately... people should be allowed choice and advertising is part of that.... I am like Pot...despite watching ciggy sponsorship for MANY years...I have not become a smoker... unfortunately there are some who are more easily swayed by advertising..... and it seems by demographic, those more likely to smoke are from a lower class level. If said people are so easily pursuaded to buy cigarettes, then maybe if they were too expensive to buy, it counteracts the 'urge' to buy?...
Not ideal.... but the gradual, continuos urge by Eurocrat Prats in the European Parliament to gradually take away anyones choice or decision making capability is going to come back and bite them in the backside one day....when eventually the common man rises up and says 'enough....I am sick of you telling me what to do...'
This has caused revolutions in the past....and these muppets dont see the seeds of it now..... In 1936 a nation became so sick and tired of not being listened to, that it chose to support a complete
lunatic that promised a different way... unfortunately...history WILL repeat itself, if the liberal left keeps pushing and pushing its dogma onto people that do not have the same views...
They could start by heavily controlling the output of the European Court of Human Rights, which is frankly an abomination to any institution and is constantly used to support the complaints of a minority (complainant) versus the democratically elected majority.... where are the majorities 'RIGHTS' as I very rarely see them being fought for by said court....
Therefore I agree, that unless a substance is illegal...there can and should be not restriction on the marketing activities of said companies...the warnings are very clear on the packet.... if someone is stupid enough to ignore that.... I unfortunately have very little sympathy for them... and even less to them getting medical treatment for a condition caused by their inability to say 'no'...