Quote of the week

It's been a busy week for everyone at Forest. Best moment, perhaps, was seeing this headline (left) on the front page of the Scottish Daily Mail on Thursday. It was inspired by a quote from Forest's Neil Rafferty (a former Sunday Times man) who said: "We will soon be living in a country where pornographic magazines will be on display in shops and not cigarettes."

Comments

[mary,smoker,voter,not pariah]

Ah well the phorno readers will be happy for now, ASH will go to flASH and ban it soon.

[Dave Atherton]

I suppose with tobacco the shopkeeper's hands are below the counter, but with the pornography everyone's hands need to above the counter, I suppose.

[Blad Tolstoy]

What a waste of time such action will be as it will not stop people smoking. In fact, check the profits of the tobacco companies plus the share price index and it's up, up, up all the way.

So why is this nonsense going to make any difference at all?

[Lyn]

Blad, as I have said before, and no doubt will again all of this has to be some kind of smokescreen! After all, guns, drugs and knife crime hasn't really fallen over the years. You are not supposed to be able to buy this sort of thing the 'over the counter' but if you wanted one of these items, probably the best person to ask would be a kid! Kids will not be stopped from smoking by the cigarettes being hidden, they will enjoy the challenge even more of obtaining them and seeing who they can outwhit! On top of which, it will give a new impetus to smuggled and fake cigarettes.

When we go abroad twice a year, we go not just for the holiday or to visit friends, but to stock up on our cigs, so we bring about a caseful back each trip. We also meet people who say that they don't smoke, but by filling one of their suitcases they can more or less pay for their holiday once they get home and sell them! It is no advantage to us to sell what we buy because we smoke them ourselves and are usually running very low by the next time we go.

If these actions, like the ban itself, are not some kind of smokescreen, then it must be some lowlife politician(s) trying to justify their existence and to hell with who gets steamrollered in the end!