In little over a few weeks the smoking ban comes into force in England. The argument for this, which includes the absurdity of not being allowed to smoke in your office even if you're the only one who works in it, is all about public health and the claims about secondary smoke and passive smoking right?
Wrong. This little tale in the Mail on Sunday shows that it's not really got anything to with smoking and secondary smoke for the campaigners. Basically an American company has produced a highly addictive tobacco based gel that you rub into your hands to get a nicotine hit. It is aptly called "NicoFix".
The product is not billed as an aid to quitting, but an aid to getting your hit when you're in a place that you're not allowed to smoke. Frankly it sounds like a brilliant soltuion for all those smokers out there. However, the anti-smoking lobby don't like it, even though it's got nothing to do with smoking.
7 comments:
"In little over a few weeks the smoking ban comes into force. "
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It is already in force.
Gwil ap Tomos
edited it to say "in England"
Perhaps they are worried about the dangers of passive handshaking...?
Juliam - Funneeeeeee!!!
But you may have given them an idea.
I admire the American company for coming up with a solution to behaviour fascists, but when I smoked, I did it for all the surrounding accessorial behaviour. Waving a hand holding a cigarette is so much more dramatic than waving an empty hand. Pouring a drink and lighting a cigarette was kind of ... complete, somehow.
I didn't suffer any withdrawal symptoms at all when I quit. I went from smoking 60 a day (70 if I'd spent the evening socialising) to zero overnight. I don't believe that other people do, either. It's the withdrawal from a habit that bothers them, not the absence of nicotine. In my opinion.
However, I hate socialism and all the controlling, fascist freaks it attracts, so I wish this new product, designed to thwart them, unalloyed success.
You are obviously a smoker, no harm in that so long as I do not have to "enjoy" your habit at the same time.
Say one had to be cast away on a desert island without cigarettes. Would one prefer to be marooned with a bunch of 'smokers', 'non smokers' or 'non smoking fascists'. A no brainer really.
So when I go out with my colleagues for a "passive-smoking break" I need to shake their hands now? Some of them don't wash after going to the toilet - I *know* that for a fact. You know who you are ...
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