Re: your diatribe in Rogers Rabbits you have again targeted smokers. I didn't reply to your first outburst on this subject but reply this time. I must as I feel it's a personal insult to myself and other smokers.
I have been smoking longer than you have walked this earth and I do respect non-smokers as when visiting such people's homes or flats I abstain from smoking and I don't go outside to partake in smoking. I don't smoke until I leave their company.
Another statement that you make is that we will be a drain on the health budget. In actual fact we won't because we pay taxes on our earnings and we pay a high tax on the tobacco products, so in reality we are paying three times the tax that non smokers pay therefore we have prepaid for any health problems we may incur on ourselves.
You on the other hand pollute the air every day, you drive from your home into the city and there are far more vehicles on the roads than there are smokers wandering the streets. The emissions from cars, trucks and buses spewing out their poisons, are far more toxic than tobacco products, so you are no better than a smoker.
I had six sons and their mother and I were both smokers and yet only one smoked and it wasn't smoking that killed him, it was a truck smashing into his car killing both he and his lady. So who is right, you or me? I'm prepared to defend my smoking, how about you and your car usage?

Honi Gardiner, Gate Pa.

Sorry to hear about your son. You're right. How selfishly unsustainable of me, having a job to go to. I should stay home, bludge a benefit and smoke.

Brian.