It seems the UK Govt hates us so much it plans to steal from us and will break EU law - you know, the one that "we can't pick and chose which bits we like and which we don't" - to punish us for not paying for our own stigmatisation and denormalisation.
And in the spirit of not abiding by EU regulations on cross border shopping, which the British Govt ignores only if it involves hate crime against smokers, the ConDems plan to harass us if we smoke more than they believe we should.
The EU Directive 2008/118/EC states that there is no limit on the personal amounts of tobacco that can be brought over a member state's border but the British Govt is taking no notice. It has issued guidelines which fraudulently lead the general public to believe that 1kg of tobacco or 800 cigarettes is the maximum "By Law" that can legitimately be brought home.
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The British Govt also needs the smoker's cash to continue backing those who design false studies, make false allegations and think they are above the law when anyone wants to see how or if their fraud was manipulated.
It seems smokers are too dirty and foul to be considered as part of NuBritish society but our money is better than anyone else's when it comes to raking in the excruciating high tax on our product to pay for the mortgages of those public workers employed to encourage Smokerphobia.
Perhaps we need to shout this out as loud as possible because these creeps obviously just don't get it or they are naively listening to the wrong people.
Look - CleggyCameroids, you might just notice a pirate image to the left of this blog. In case you're partially sighted and not stupid, I'll put it in big words for you :
SMOKERS HAVE JOINED THE RESISTANCE. EMPTYING YOUR CORRUPT ANTI-SMOKER POCKETS OF OUR CASH IS ALL WE CAN DO TO MAKE YOU LISTEN AND YOU CANNOT SCARE US OFF WITH THREATS OF HARASSMENT!
WE WILL SMOKE IN SPITE OF YOU AND IF YOU STOP US BUYING ABROAD WE WILL GROW OUR OWN.
Uh-hum - sorry - my throat is rather hoarse now and I'll try to continue in a calmer fashion.
We've been buying elsewhere than from the state for a very long time now - almost five years in fact, ever since you declared war on us, and some of us already grow our own personal supply. We will not fund your armoury of weapons against us. We want to fund everyone's healthcare on the NHS like we have done ever since its inception and until you stop funding Big Pharma supported political lobby groups, we will not fund you.
Looking at passengers coming off ferries is not where your focus should be. It should be on the criminal gangs who are targeting poor smokers with a dangerous, unregulated product. But then organised and probably violent criminals are not quite as easy to bully as ordinary law abiding people, I suppose.
If the Govt really wanted to stop cross border shopping and the supply of a dangerous black market product to those who can't afford to go abroad the answer is simple, which is why it won't be taken up.
CleggyCameroid should reduce the price of tobacco and cigarettes to the same kind of levels as our European neighbours. They will find that the revenue to the Treasury will massively increase but it won't encourage one more young person to smoke who doesn't want to. Those who do choose to smoke after Govt attempts to brainwash them into a blind state of panic about smoking are not breaking the law
We are already over-legislated to ensure that children and those under age won't want to smoke but it is time to recognise smokers are a group, we are here, we have something to say and much to add to this debate and policy.
You must get off our backs, get some common sense and independence back into this issue, and let us help the state get back on it's once sound economic two feet.