License to smoke – 10 pound smoking permit
A government health advisory body has come up with a plan for a license required in order to buy tobacco. As anti-smoking as i am this is a show of amazing gall by the governement. Shouldn’t they be called a wealth advisory body instead?
My parody to License to Kill. James Bond would disagree with the permit.
The idea is that in order for already disgruntled smokers to be able to buy tobacco they would need a £10 permit. This increased level of taxation is crazy and there’ll be some serious outcry from the pro-smoking groups. The permit would also require a photo too. It reminds me of photo-fit for jail… maybe that’s the next step!
It’s certainly another sneaky tactic to help smokers with that final urge to quit but is this bureaucracy gone too far?
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[...] Normally i’m strictly no smoking, it’s bad for you and the people around you, yadda yadda. But this is another story in the news where i compelled to go against my stance and complain the other way round (the other one being about needing a smoking license). [...]
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