The government has decided
that cigarettes are not to be
sold in plain packets.
Hearing this, I idly wondered
who had lobbied the
government?
My next thought was, don't we have
gruesome photographs on packets
to remind folk of the dangers?
Not being a smoker I'm not sure.
I wondered what photograph
would put people off smoking,
then I had a brainwave...
Yes, you've guessed it...
Gideon Oliver Osbourne...
Oops, sorry, Jeffrey...
Double Oooops...
George.
Whose phizog would at a zippo stroke,
put you off?
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Not being a smoker I'm not sure.
I wondered what photograph
would put people off smoking,
then I had a brainwave...
Yes, you've guessed it...
Gideon Oliver Osbourne...
Oops, sorry, Jeffrey...
Double Oooops...
George.
Whose phizog would at a zippo stroke,
put you off?
☹☹☛☠☚☹☹
Hmm ~ I am not a smoker either.
ReplyDeleteWho scares me Hmm ~ Sara Palin ~ shh ... joking .
Freddy Krueger use to scare the wits out of me as a kid.
Smoking, we all know plays havoc with your complexion. Freddie it would appear, is a 60 a day man, I reckon.
DeleteSarah Palin looks dew-fresh, perhaps it's her formaldehyde night cream?
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I don't smoke. It is a thoroughly disgusting and offensive habit. Instead of pictures I think I would just have these words on fag packets - "Smoking Fags Makes You Stink!" - that or the price in big bold letters just to remind smokers how much money they are wasting - £8.50 etc. But if there must be a picture I'd have chirpy Radio Two DJ Chris Evans smoking a Park Drive. Enough to make anybody sick!
ReplyDeleteCouldn't agree more Mr YP. We have a friend who when he arrives and gives me a welcoming hug and kiss, I smartly reply, 'You stink of cigarettes!' I've always had a way with words; subtlety, I never did master!
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I have never smoked either but my mother was never put off by the gruesome images on her Silk Cut! They made me feel ill but never her!!! She is eighty seven so maybe she thinks it doesn't matter now. My father once asked his G.P (who was keen to get my father to stop smoking) if he would live longer if he stopped and as the doc said he didn't know my father carried on smoking!! Personally I just do not 'get' smoking at all. Jaynex
ReplyDeleteI went to the village slimming club run by our local council. The leader was a very smart slim, young slip of a girl extolling the virtues of living a healthy lifestyle. I was fine with it until I got a whiff of her breath... Fag-Ash Lil, my interest in her words was, at speed extinguished. I never went back, now at 26 stone, I wonder if I cut my nose off the spite my tum?
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There is a fib in there, wonder if you've spotted it Jayne?
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If writing 'Smoking Kills' all over the packs doesn't put them off... nothing will!
ReplyDeleteIn a funny way, smokers have my sympathy because of the nicotine effect. I can't kick the butter habit, butter isn't an addictive substance... IS IT? I'm only glad I never did succumb to the ciggies behind the bike shed.
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Lucky enough to grow up in a non-smoking household I was never tempted to indulge even though the moody art students I mixed with smoked with great panache. I must admit those narrowed eyes as he puffed on a Gauloises sent me weak at knees. And I loved the sexy scent of Gitanes or even a Passing Cloud...
ReplyDeleteActually, NOT smoking can be fun!
The one and only time I can ever remember enjoying the smell of cigarette smoke was walking along the Ouse from Grange Garth into town. I followed someone like a blood hound sniffing the air. Thinking about it now, it was definitely a sexy Gitanes smell. I did stop short of sniffing their bum though!
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