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Pete, here’s a tip for you.. if the Angel Gabriel should come to you and give you a message… stick your fingers in your ears and hum very loudly so you cannot hear it.
We have enough religious groups already in this world without someone starting a new one that involves Dimes.
:D
You posted that link before…..
did you remember yours?
Of course he’s not.. he would have known all about the Angel Gabriel if he had been.
Did you know that the Archangel Gabriel had the horn? He also may have been a burning bush……..which is kind of surreal.
Why did someone not shoot the messenger? We may have been saved a lot of bother.
That clown has gout!
And bad teeth………..so smoking doesn’t just ruin your health it gives you yellow teeth too.
And possibly premature baldness and big feet.
And I’m sure he has bad breath.
Its the angel’s fault…… don’t blame it on the muslims, don’t blame it on the christians, don’t blame it on the bad times.. blame it on the boogie… I mean angels.
Kent… i’d take the first option, I’ve been to Gravesend
And Pete… ffs take this seriously :D :wink:
the seven deadly sins seem to be paying a visit…………and for our next trick, the wrath of god descends. :D
Nobody said life was meant to be easy! :wink:
@forumhostpb wrote:
But Cas, I’ve provided a solution to the fiscal issue. Deduct the lost revenue from a total smoknig ban from the vast sums of money that we pour into the NHS.
We are constantly being told by the anti-smoking Nazis how much smokers are costing the NHS in the form of wide ranging and (no doubt) expensive treatments for ‘smoking related’ illneses & diseases. OK let’s accept their argument on cost, ban the sale of tobacco totally ….. and thus eradicate all these diseases & illnesses.
Once the ban has taken effect, the NHS will no longer have this awful financial burden to bear and so its costs will go down enormously. Reducing their income proportionately seems only sensible to me.
Of course there is the irony that the very people who shake their heads and tut at those who choose to continue smoking (NHS workers) will be the ones to lose their jobs when the anti-smoking ban is successful.
But hey ….. you can’t make an omelette without breaking eggs eh?
So, lets say that children of 8 smoke these days (or 3 if you read the papers the other day and some stupid plonker was allowing a 3 year old to chain smoke). If they smoke between 20 and 40 cigarettes a day, by the time they are 40 some of them may have died from heart related problems, a further percentage will be developing breathing problems,some will have had limbs amputated by the age of 50, by the age of 60, a large percentage will have required coronary bypass artery surger, and be on regular blood thinning medications. A whole host of people will require oxygen tanks to be able to breath. Some will have had lung cancer and required lung transplants. Most will be dead by the age of 70.
If you stop everyone smoking now…. you will still have people who are aged between 40 and ? 70 plus who are requiring treatment now and who will always require treatment until they die. The numbers would slowly start to reduce, but it could take 30 years before the last person died of smoking related illnesses. The ban on cigarettes would stop the government from getting any money from the sale of cigarettes (obviously), and so they would have to find the money to pay for the care of people already ill from somewhere else.
And that… my friends, is the main reason that the government has not put a total ban on the sale of cigarettes!
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