Veuve Edouard Champagne down from £19.99 to £9.99
Carlsberg Lager £8.99 to £5.99
Pims, Smirnoff, Gordon's Archers only £10.99
On the bottom;
WE ARE MACMILLAN CANCER SUPPORT.
ivan burit
amenity, did it say how much its cigerettes were....
"smoking causes cancer etc"
amenity
Quite true Ivan but so does drinking cause cancer, I suppose they know you will get your coffin nails when at the shop, there is a strong physiological link between cigarettes and drinking anyway.
Help!!
pepsi
Well gentlemen, I am going to go off on one of my hobby horses here.
I personally detest major supermarkets and would much rather encourage people to use their local shops [if they still have any left] but I am enough of a realist to know that that is unlikely to happen with our consumer mad population.
However drinking, smoking and cancer, yes drinking can be one of the contributing factors to some cancers as can smoking, but so can the colourants in our foods, the pesticides that we use on our vegetables, the hormones that are pumped into our meat obesity, lack of exercise etc. etc. The simple fact is that many cancers are multi faceted and we still do not really know what will set them off.
So, are we going to ban everything in the name of political correctness in order to maybe wipe out cancer, of course not, that is neither sensible nor realistic.
We are all bombarded by the media and our government about healthy life styles so there is no excuse for us to buy the things that we know are bad for us, but we still do, it is our choice and our responsibility, we should not constantly be expecting someone else to take responsibility for our livestyles.
I drink very rarely but unfortunately did start smoking again when I was told that my breast cancer was NOT caused by smoking, however I am willing to take responsibility for my own actions in terms of what I eat, drink and my lifestyle, I know the risks and most of the adult population also knows them.
Personally I would rather see a drive to ban pesticides on our food than I would to ban supermarkets from advertising booze, I would rather see the elimination of plastic carrier bags than hiding the wine out of sight.
If the government was serious about wanting to reduce the consumption of booze and tobacco there is a simple solution, stop letting supermarkets sell them, go back to the days of tobacconists and off-licence only sales.
I don't have a problem with that but I do have a problem with the nanny state mentality, where it is always someone else's responsibility , that seems to be taking over this country.
OK, rant over
ivan burit
As ever i have a long story about something, this will be brief, its about when i stopped smoking...
I also am no longer permitted to drink alcohol either....
It was about 20 years ago i was cabbing full time for a couple of years, the money was SO much better than skilled factory work, if you worked the night shifts.
So, there i was, a regular fare had got in,
is it ok to smoke drive ?
yup said i,
want one too said fare ?
yup said i, got just up the road, waiting to turn right, and ....
................................B A N G....................................
a reps cavalier drove at speed into my vehicle waiting to turn right, knocking me out for a while.......lol
I dropped my lighted ciggy onto my "lap" which caused a bit of "damage"
Full on panic then resumed as we tried to get out, but with crushed doors it was quite hard to open them, but we did............
Never smoked since though........ha..ha..ha..
So, all you smokers out there, if you want to frighten yourself witless, stop smoking for ever........
act out my easy one step smoking cessation programme, all for the cost of 2 old cars,
oh, and wip lash for weeks & weeks too, just to remind you...
And the booze, smells nice, a sip tastes nice, but a drink of it does me no good whatso ever i`m afraid......
PS, i still love the smell of rolling tobaco, but my most pet hates are cigarette smoke or ashtrays....
I`ve been known to throw them out of my door at home.....lol.
amenity
I used to smoke but stopped about forty years ago. I used to drink to compensate for not smoking, not very clever, so, haven't touched a drop for the last thirty five years.
One of the reasons I packed in the cigarettes is I met a researcher who investigated the effects of smoking for a large producer, "one thing they never talk about is insecticide that is put on tobacco plants nowadays" she said.
Then my mother bless her memory for ever, died from cancer and little known at the time probably from my fathers strong habit of Players Weights.
My father did not die from cancer but took six years to slowly die, eventually drowning in his own lung juice with emphysema.
My original issue is because of the impact of these special offer gimmicks on those that are not able to distinguish risk as we experienced adults can, our children.
pepsi
Understand your point Amenity, however, I believe that kids under eighteen are not legally allowed to purchase drink or cigarettes and I fully agree with that.
But, at 18 they should [if our educational system has worked for once] be able to understand that these things do not make for a long life because everyone, including the media keeps telling them so.
My big beef would be that supermarkets are not the right place to sell these products in the first place.
amenity
pepsi wrote:
Understand your point Amenity, however, I believe that kids under eighteen are not legally allowed to purchase drink or cigarettes and I fully agree with that.
But, at 18 they should [if our educational system has worked for once] be able to understand that these things do not make for a long life because everyone, including the media keeps telling them so.
My big beef would be that supermarkets are not the right place to sell these products in the first place.
Unfortunately shops are selling drink and cigarettes to underage young people and harder to control I know, but big brothers are doing the shopping for them.
You have a good point about supermarkets yes they should not sell drink or smoking related items.
Sadly our educational system does not seem to place ant strong emphasis on social interactions, there is no doubt that state education could take a leaf out of public school training for the young.
State education equates to warehousing and public/private school equates to green-housing.
I have said this before but perhaps it is worth repeating, an old pal a retired teacher who has a lifetime of shared experience in both public and state run schools explained it like this.
When encouraging the student in public/private education one would commence like this "when you have left this school and are managing others" etc etc .
At state run schools " If you put your nose to the grindstone you might get a job, otherwise.........."
ivan burit
dear all, my "boss" whilst at work, informed me that testiculer cancer on younger men is on the increase, brought on earlier in life by lifestyle, eating habits, and the two no - no`s = drink & smoking....
