Smoke gets in their eyes

This non smoker considers it appropriate that the public be educated as to the alleged or potential dangers of smoking. But rather than shove legislation down our throats, the public, that's us,  should have been allowed to make up our own minds as to what we believe. As you will see, ignoring commonsense and the will of the people, has been and will continue to be disastrous for NZ. I think it was 2005 when the no smoking regulations came into force. Since then I haven't spent a penny in restaurants or bars. Nor do I intend to. After a lifetime running hotels and taverns all over NZ and playing bartender in thirteen European countries in my younger days, I'm not going to waste my time pandering to a bunch of pea brained halfwits called politicians. Remember that the average lifespan of a new Wellington bar or restaurant is now a mere 19 months, then its kaput- finished. Sadly another optimistic owner bites the dust of officialdom's mindless box ticking. And don't forget that non smokers have the same 100% death rate as the so called morally corrupt smokers. Despite officialdom's pie in the sky predictions, nothing has changed. At the end of one's life, one simply curls up and dies. That's the way death has always been and no amount of legislation will change Mother Nature's intentions. Do you remember the promises that because of the new smoking legislation, the reducing numbers of smokers would no longer clog up hospital beds? What a load of bullshit. The hospitals continue their aspirin terrorism and are turning away an increasing number of patients. When I was in hospital with heart problems three years ago, 25% of the population were smokers as were 25% of my fellow patients. Therefore it was wrong to suggest that smokers were clogging up the system and denying healthy non smokers vital medical treatment required because of breathing air contaminated with petrol fumes. Today nothing has changed. The percentages remain the same. When the government were promoting the smoking legislation, they employed independent "experts" to provide the information they wanted (those that told the truth were ignored), which most conveniently suggested that smoking killed 600 people a year. Over the last few years the propaganda designed to con the gullible public has been truly amazing. From 600 a year, we are now officially advised that smoking kills one out of two smokers. Lets face it, 25% of NZ's four million people are smokers and according to the "experts" half of them will die. It's called bullshit and sadly, the Jackass Mentality Kiwi is silly enough to believe it. Adolf Hitler's Propaganda Minister, Herr Goebbels, would have loved Godzone. But have the smokers death rate really gone up from 600 to 500,000? Actually, it's called playing with numbers to a premeditated very much prejudiced advantage. Excuse me while I laugh. Don't forget that despite the anti smoking propaganda, the number of cigarettes sold has increased and more teenagers are taking up smoking. Maybe they are raising their fingers to the authorities that prohibit them from growing up in CBDs, parks and shopping malls? I asked a 15-year-old if would give his life for NZ? He lit a cigarette and angrily raised his forefinger. Come to think of it, I wouldn't lift a finger either. Why the hell should I? Despite all the taxes I've paid (a lousy investment), what in reality has NZ ever done for me over and above the absolute minimum the bureaucrats can get away with? Have you noticed that the level of murderous criminal behaviour has risen dramatically? We're getting more and more weird behaviour that doesn't make sense. Dangerous drugs like P have multiplying with deadly results. Street brawls abound and attacks on the police are getting out of hand. Firearms are used almost daily, domestic violence is on the up, and more and more beautiful babies are beaten to death. Why is this happening more frequently than before? While authority will never admit anything, perhaps the stress of not being allowed to smoke in public areas is encouraging our inbuilt physical aggression? Perhaps people are unknowing thinking that if we can't go to our local bar and harmlessly puff on a cigarette and sing Frank Sinatra's, I Did it My Way, on the Karaoke, we'll riot in the street to demonstrate our displeasure. Or maybe we'll buy booze cheaply in the supermarket and drink and smoke to our hearts content at home. Then we don't have to put up with excessive bar prices and brain dead bouncers telling us when we've had enough booze?  Stuff the authorities. We're going to live our lives they way we want, and those up themselves, self righteous anti smoking advocates, can go and get completely stuffed.  We pay through the nose to live in this over regulated paradise ruled by mindless, perk devouring jelly fish, so Herr Authority, don't complain if you don't like the way society's sliding backwards. You made the rules, so you put up with the consequences of your stupid legislation. Shove that in your pipe and smoke it, eh Boy? Got a light mate?