And so it begins...

<g> To be fair I did say I had no problem with adults smoking, but
wanted a total ban because it was the only way I could think of to
stop kids getting addicted.

And I'd put money on it happening eventually, except I probably won't
be around to collect.

 

And LJKS for cars - or was he before your time?

 

Colin Irvine says...

I know LJK Setright, I trimmed his long term loaner Honda Prelude in
leather back in 1992/93. Decent enough bloke who gave my work a good
write up at the time.

 

Praise indeed.

 

Colin Irvine says...

I've been written up in a magazine feature for a BMW specialist
magazine, good one again.

 

I usually do, too. But five minutes before I wouldn't have been thinking
about smoking.

I rather enjoy one after a couple of days abstinence.

 

Can't remember, TBH, but I do remember you having your first large
beer about 10:30 each morning, and assumed you'd have a smoke then
too.

 

somehow I don't think banning smoking will help this. if you're not
allowed to do something there's a high majority will do it anyway.
this happens with all things you're not allowed to do, how many kids
do you know who haven't tried a joint?

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Do I smoke while skiing? I honestly thought I didn't. Thin air, gloves
and trying to roll a cig usually puts me off.

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Adrienne M Bonwick wrote

Firstborn. An absolute passionate anti-smoker she is.

 

her and me both. however, I've never been part of the standard
thinking peeps.

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Adrienne M Bonwick wrote

An epitaph that could be carved into the tombstone of every ukrmer.

 

I don't know enough kids well enough to allow a sensible answer to
that.

My guess is that currently a lot fewer kids try joints than try
cigarettes, and I also guess that they're a bit older and wiser when
they try them. If it was cigarettes they were trying for the first
time then they'd not even get the buzz from the first few that you get
from joints, so I guess even fewer of them would persevere.

I've now got quite a few people disagreeing with me. Do you all find
the present addiction rate amongst kids acceptable, and if not how
would you change it?

 

I wonder how many kids are "addicted" to cigarettes. I smoked from the
age of about 10 and was never to this day addicted. I doubt there are
many people on the planet addicted to nicotine and would guess at around
zero kids. Kids smoke because they think it's big and clever. Same
reason I did. They can stop whenever they want to. If they reach
adulthood and continue, so be it.

Like I've said before "Don't run with scissors".

I'm off for a smoke.

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Well that's all right then.

 

Youngest daughter, who's also a vehement anti-smoker, my eldest smoked
until recently and admits to the occasional joint.

 

Boots Blakeley says...

My eldest tried a joint once, and landed up in hospital.

 

If I was Tony Parson's mum, I'd have torn out my uterus in disgust
by now.

 

She's supposed to cook it until the juices run clear. No blood.



frag

 

It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the

Seedy dives have that effect on a lot of people.

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