Smoking a rich mans drug

Smoking a rich mans drug

When I was a very young man (not that many years ago), smoking was a poor person’s desire. The rich have always had more sense that to spend money to destroy their health. Now days a packet of Twenty cigarettes costs £5.

The maths is very easy £5 X 7 days = £35 X 52 weeks = £1820. That’s how much it costs these days. No longer a poor mans problem.

The reason for this ramble is that for the past 38 years I have been a Twenty a day man, at today’s rate that means that I have spent over £69, 000. Hell that’s real money.

What could I have done with all that money? Well I could have brought

Renault Clio Dynamique                              = £ 7,900
Top of the line laptop                                   = £ 1,000
Digital camera                                        = £    250
Designer suits (5)                                   = £ 1,500
Martell V.S. Coqnac (10 bottles)                         = £    160
DVD player (with hard drive)                              = £    500
Deposit on a flat                                   = £25,000

Total                                             = £36320

That still leaves over £33,000 left over. WOW with that I could buy 6,600 packets of cigarettes and smoke to my hearts content.

See I am addicted to the bloody weed.

If our government really wants to help people to stop smoking then they should banish the sale of cigarettes across the whole national. Well that will not happen as they like the tax money too much.

Lets face it people who die from cigarettes do not vote, but large tobacco companies spend money like water at election time. Plus they have thousands of workers.

So let’s cut the crap, the government could not give a toss about the health of the nation. They just want the money and your vote. After all they have increased the tax on cigarettes over the past 15 years by some 215%.