Sometimes I wish I didn’t smoke. It is bad for you, expensive, makes you smell, it’s an addiction.  But really I think all that horribleness, all that pain in later life might just be worth it to get back at those bureaucratic idiots that enforce stupid things in this country.

Let’s first let us look at Challenge 21 (or Challenge 25,30,101, whatever mad number they make it). What really makes me mad is that I am 19. Not that far over the legal age now, sure. I don’t drive. I am a very likely to be challenged. Thus, in order to fulfill my addiction I must carry round, at all times, my passport.

Not only could it prove to be a security risk, even if I lost it I can face paying out the cost of a new one (and even a trip to London) and they do not come cheap. Challenge 21 is a quick-fix solution to a deeper rooted problem. Why do young people drink? Why do they smoke? Let’s get down to the nitty gritty and work from the bottom up. And, Ok, I can put up with being carded but people who are OBVIOUSLY over the age of 30- it’s just a waste of time.

And do not get me started on the smoking ban. I don’t disagree with it wholly but why on earth is it not acceptable to smoke in a bus shelter but Ok to smoke in something that LOOKS like a bus shelter with loads of other smokers? It’s like we are being swept under the rug. You go to the pub and you drink. You are damaging your body. You EXPECT that. Why take smoking away? Some would say it’s tradition
What really pissed me off was a comment by a non-smoker who said that she was looking forward to the smoking ban so it wouldn’t be so smoky in the pub. Ok, fine, I can accept that. But then she went on to add that now all the smokers were outside ruining her being able to sit there and enjoy the sun. What the fuck does this woman want?! Where did she expect them to be?  I was incredulous. By the way, love, never mind the cig smoke you will probably get skin cancer anyway.
Smokers are like people with contagious tropical diseases that they are worried they might catch if they get too close. Smokers are the plague who must be removed in cartsWhat I really don’t get is if they are putting all these restrictions on where you can smoke and who is allowed to buy cigarettes and whatnot just bloody ban it and do us all a favour. But then again we all know why they wont..