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This guy delights me! He smokes and goes to the gym! How cool is that? 😊

Real men smoke! And if they don’t smoke, they tolerate other men who do. They don’t bitch, moan, and whine about other men who love to inhale.

The worst men in history that I can think of who were ardent anti-smokers were truly disgusting creatures. Adolf Hitler, and Vladimir Lenin are chief amongst them! Being a diehard anti-smoker is really nothing to be proud of – you belong to a list of the worst of characters in history!

Starmer, who is on the way out anyway, hasn't got a snowball's chance in hell of stopping people smoking, with his ludicrous and undemocratic generational smoking ban. Only a political greenhorn could even think up a law as stupid as that! — © Mark Alexander

Starmer’s Going Soon…

…so now you can start smoking again! 😊 The benefits of smoking! “…Started smoking cigarettes at 37”! Good for you!

F*** politicians! I’m f*****g sick to death of the bastards! Enjoy your life! Smoke if you want to! And enjoy your smoke, too! There’s nothing quite like it. People who smoke are far less likely ever to contract Parkinson's disease or Alzheimer's. Now those are two very good reasons to start smoking, aren't they? Moreover, smoking keeps you slim. — © Mark Alexander

Xi Jinping Quit Smoking. China Still Cannot.

THE NEW YOTK TIMES: China’s tobacco monopoly has become so financially vital to the government that even its powerful leader has failed to curb the country’s smoking habit.

On a warm spring day in 2012, Xi Jinping, then China’s vice president, met with Bill Gates in Beijing. As the men were walking out of the meeting room, the conversation turned to smoking in a country that consumes nearly half the world’s cigarettes.

Mr. Xi, a former smoker, said he felt much better after quitting years earlier and described tobacco use as a serious problem for China, recalled Dr. Ray Yip, then head of the Gates Foundation in China. Mr. Xi, who would become president the next year, promised to “do something about tobacco,” Dr. Yip said.

Days later, Mr. Gates appeared at an antismoking event with Peng Liyuan, the Chinese leader’s wife and a celebrity singer. Both wore red shirts emblazoned with an antismoking slogan. Yet in the 14 years since, as Mr. Xi has become China’s most dominant leader in decades, Beijing has made only slow progress curbing tobacco use or enacting a national indoor smoking ban. While cigarette sales have fallen across much of the world, China has moved in the opposite direction.

Cigarette consumption in China rose 39 percent from 2003 to 2023, even as it fell 26 percent in the rest of the world. The 2.4 trillion cigarettes sold in China each year account for nearly half the global total, according to a report by a nongovernmental organization founded by former officials from the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention.

The percentage of smokers has declined over the last 13 years, as fewer young people smoke, but cigarette sales have steadily grown. Cigarettes prices are low: A pack costs about $3 on average, roughly one-third the price in the United States.

The failure to slow cigarette sales is a measure of the clout wielded by China’s State Tobacco Monopoly Administration, which both regulates the industry and operates the country’s dominant cigarette maker, the China National Tobacco Corporation. » | Joy Dong | Reporting from Hong Kong | Wednesday, May 27, 2026

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‘He Outlived Four of His Doctors’: David Hockney’s Lfelong Love of Smoking – and the 2,000 Cigarettes He Kept At Home ‘for Emergencies’

THE GUARDIAN: His passion got him into scraps with the Paris Metro and numerous other bodies. Was it a social crutch? A Freudian response to his father? And why did he take such delight in writing to the Guardian about it all?

This screenshot is from this Guardian article. | He wore a badge saying: ‘End bossiness soon’ … Hockney smokes a cigarette as he campaigns at a Labour Party conference. Photograph: Chris Ison/PA
David Hockney’s last self-portrait that went on show while he lived, in 2025’s Paris retrospective, has a Droste effect: the figure holds a picture in which the figure holds a picture. Between the fingers of one hand, a paintbrush; of the other, a cigarette. He could have been smoking and smoking and smoking into infinity. That’s the elemental truth of the work, and even while that turned out not to be literally true – he died this week, aged 88 – he gave it his best shot.

The painting is titled Play within a Play within a Play and Me with a Cigarette, and it got him into a scrap with the authorities of the Paris Metro, who said a photo of it couldn’t be used to advertise the show, since it contravened regulations – it is a pretty common rule that you’re not allowed to glamorise smoking lest you influence the young. “The bossiness of those in charge of our lives knows no limits,” he said at the time. “Art has always been a path to free expression and this is a dismal [decision].”

Bossiness was his bête noir – he often wore a badge that said: “End bossiness soon.” Whether or not the work really did glamorise the habit is an open question since, although nattily dressed in houndstooth, Hockney didn’t exactly look in rude health.

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The smoking could have been an act of artistic self-fashioning, to join the ranks of other celebrated smokers – Picasso, Monet – to whom Hockney paid homage as fag forebears. But if you saw it as he did, you wouldn’t be looking for reasons. He smoked because he really loved smoking, and he did it all the time. » | Zoe Williams | Saturday, June 13, 2026

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Smoking Is Cool Again – and Hollywood’s to Blame

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THE TELEGRAPH: From Oscar victors One Battle After Another and Sinners to Disney’s hit Kennedy drama Love Story, cigarettes are creeping back on to screens

Oscar Wilde wrote in The Picture of Dorian Gray that “A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want?” For many years, cinema took the Wildean image of the cigarette as the Platonic idea of sophistication and developed it even further.

Who can forget Sean Connery’s introduction as 007 in Dr No, lighting a Craven A cigarette as he says the words “Bond… James Bond” for the first time on screen, or Humphrey Bogart disconsolately but stylishly smoking in Casablanca as he mourns his lost love, Ilsa, saying: “Of all the gin joints, in all the towns, in all the world, she walks into mine.”

Smoking on screen historically denoted sexiness, class and cool. This was the case when Sharon Stone lit up a cigarette in an interrogation room in Basic Instinct and sneered at the detectives interrogating her: “What are you going to do? Charge me with smoking?”

It was hard, coming of age in the Nineties, not to be impressed by it all, even as we were surrounded by health warnings; by the time I was at university, practically everyone I knew smoked. The only reason I refrained was because I was frankly rubbish at it. » | Alexander Larman | Wednesday, April 15, 2026

”Hollywood’s to blame”. One could turn that around and say ‘thanks to Hollywood’! 😊 Even though I am no longer a smoker, I am sick to death of all the bloody do-gooders around in the West these days. Quite frankly, they are so tiresome!

Do-gooders’ intentions are, I dare say,… ‘good’, but they are frightfully boring and such people are certainly not fun to be around. Also, it must be said that whatever their intentions, people have never been so unhealthy as they are today. When I look back, so many people smoked, yet most people remained relatively slim throughout their lives, and type-2 diabetes was relatively uncommon. These days, this is not the case. Since people stopped smoking en masse, they have satisfied their cravings by eating and drinking instead. People eat like there’s no tomorrow, and they often drink like fish! So, these days, people suffer from obesity, obesity-related diseases, and fatty liver disease instead of smoking-related diseases.

Even though I am no longer a smoker, I smoked most of my adult life — a pack a day. These days, young people want six packs. My generation wanted twenty-packs! 😊

Anyway, all jokes aside, whichever way we lead our lives, we will eventually suffer from something in the fulness of time; it’s almost inevitable. And as my American, long-term, deceased, and sorely-missed partner always used to say: You can’t get out of this life alive! Never were truer words spoken! (He, by the way, was not a smoker. He had stopped smoking aeons before I ever met him.)

I have heard it said that some people associate smoking with poverty, ill health, and an early death. Such negativity! Such pessimism! I don’t. I associate smoking with elegance, class, and style. There's something very alluring about a well-dressed gentleman smoking a cigarette. It looks so sexy, too. After all, isn't that why so many Hollywood movies showed so many actors and actresses smoking? — © Mark Alexander

Gen Z Decided to Make Smoking Cigarettes Cool Again

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Do-gooders will never kill off smoking! It’s far too pleasurable and cool. Sorry to break it to you, health freaks! 😊

Don’t forget, I write as a non-smoker. I haven’t enjoyed a cigarette since April 10th, 2022. I am lucky: I don’t crave cigarettes, either. But I would be lying to you if I told you that I don’t think about them. I think about them often, and sometimes daydream about them as well. 😊 There is something so alluring, sexy and cool about seeing someone smoke, especially a man who is handsome and well-dressed.

Of course, I would never encourage anyone to start smoking. (But I wouldn’t discourage them, either.) The main reason being that there can be—yes, can be—serious health risks involved. The dangers of smoking are not the same for everyone. The dangers are multifactoral. The dangers depend on one’s genes, frequency of smoking, quality of cigarette smoked, other current lifestyle habits, the quality of foods consumed and the nourishment derived from them, whether or not one gets adequate sleep, etc.

If one listens to the propaganda, one would be forgiven for concluding that anyone who smokes a cigarette is destined to die of lung cancer. But this is not the case. About 10%, maybe up to 20%, of HEAVY LIFELONG smokers tend to contract the disease.

People have been scared away from the pleasurable habit. Even though I no longer smoke, I abhor this war on smoking. And as for the generational smoking ban, I loathe the very concept. I cannot print what I think of the killjoys who dreamed up the scheme! In any case, like Prohibition, it is destined to fail. BIG TIME. — © Mark Alexander

STOP the WAR on SMOKING!

MARK ALEXANDER: All these stupid ideas come here from America! The home of most bad ideas and all clownery!

We Europeans follow those Americans like lemmings! Whatever stupid idea those clowns come up with, whatever the new trend is, we must follow! Stop this NONSENSE! AT ONCE!

We can all see just how stupid Americans can be. We now have proof aplenty! Need I say more?

This anti-smoking movement has gained a seemingly unstoppable momentum out of the self-righteousness of the exceedingly intolerant. It has lost all sense of reason and rationality. And politicians who are motivated and governed by having wet dreams about being liked, take the anti-smoking message, and run with it, hoping to become even more popular.

Were longevity and good health the goal, there would be plenty of things to be banned: alcohol, excessive sugar consumption, tattoos, and drug-taking. And plenty more things besides. But people who indulge in these things are allowed to live in peace. Politicians do not molest them with ever more restrictive laws!

As a person who has survived a few near-death experiences—I have kissed the angel of death on more occasions than I would care to recall—I view life differently from these lemmings. None of those near-death experiences, by the way, have been related to my one-time, very pleasurable, daily smoking habit. (I have been a non-smoker for more than four years now.)

All pleasures in these Puritanical days have either been banned or are in the process of being banned. All pleasures not yet banned soon will be. All pleasures have already been made too expensive to be enjoyed by anyone other than the superrich. All is possible for those people, of course.

And then come the proscriptions on smoking anywhere other than perhaps one’s own home.

Incompetent politicians have listened to the intolerant amongst us and have OUTLAWED the pleasure. Those clowns prefer the people to take drugs like cannabis, cocaine, ketamine, and whatever the hell else those people take. Because those substances are usually enjoyed in secrecy, and anyway, the people who take those substances are not compliant like the struggling middle classes.

Furthermore, without having any acceptable evidence, politicians have encouraged people to vape instead, So they have endangered the lives of children with those ridiculous, exotic, and enticing flavours. I would wager that vaping, in the long run, will be shown to be far more damaging to health than smoking ever was! And for reasons I can enumerate on another occasion. In my opinion, politicians have been IRRESPONSIBLE to encourage the habit as a healthier option, as a smoking substitute — a habit they cannot possibly know enough about to evaluate. People haven’t been vaping long enough for them to know a great deal about its long-term deleterious effects on health. So, we have yet to reap the consequences of politicians’ bad decisions.

It is high time that the people be liberated; it is high time for them to be unchained. If the worst that a person does in this life is enjoy a smoke twixt birth and death, then it can be said that that person really has lived a pretty clean life.

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People Will Continue to Enjoy Their Cigarettes Regardless of Control Freaks!

Violent Tobacco Black Market Wipes $6b from Federal Budget

FINANCIAL REVIEW: The booming illicit tobacco market has wiped $6 billion from the federal budget bottom line in just five months and revenue from tobacco excise is now forecast to plummet to just over $2 billion a year by 2030.

The government raked in more than $16 billion from tobacco taxes in 2020, but the continued raising of the excise sparked a violent black market trade run by criminal gangs that has decimated the legitimate market and resulted in a massive fall in revenue.

The government is now spending hundreds of millions of dollars on dealing with the fallout, including $14 million in the budget to boost the ability of states to disrupt the illicit tobacco and e-cigarette markets.

In the mid-year budget update, the government expected to raise $5.5 billion in tobacco excise in 2025-26. Five months later, that figure is now $4.1 billion, or 24 per cent lower than expected, and will fall to $2.1 billion by June 2030.

Legal cigarettes cost about $50, of which $34 is tax and excise, while the readily available illicit product is priced at about $15. NSW Premier Chris Minns in 2025 called on Chalmers to consider lowering the excise, saying it was contributing to the illegal tobacco industry, while economist Chris Richardson has labelled the continued raising of the excise one of the worst policies this century.

“We’ve cratered the tax take, stalled the fall in smoking rates, and invited organised crime into the everyday lives of more than a million Australians,” Richardson wrote in The Australian Financial Review in April.

The budget expert said the failure by successive governments to do anything about the issue meant it would now be much harder to fix.

“Organised crime will fight tooth and nail,” he said. “They’ve been a huge success at that already: after all, they fought the law, and the law lost. Given we’re now handing them a tasty $5 billion a year in risk-free revenue, they’ll be cashed up and cranky if serious efforts are made to reverse course.” » | Ronald Mizen | Political correspondent | Wednesday, May 13, 2026

And so it will be here in the UK with Starmer's stupid, undemocratic, illiberal, and ridiculous generational smoking ban! Mark my words! That law will have to be REVERSED, REPEALED! Free up the people! You will enchain them at society's PERIL. — © Mark Alexander

Alexandre Devecchio : « Génération sans tabac en Angleterre, l’État nounou nuit gravement à la liberté »

LE FIGARO : LA BATAILLE DES IDÉES - Le Royaume-Uni a adopté une loi interdisant la vente de cigarettes aux personnes nées après 2008. Derrière l’objectif louable en matière de santé, un recul du principe de responsabilité individuelle.

Capture d'écran extraite de cet article. | Le premier ministre britannique Winston Churchill, cigare à la bouche. | English Photographer, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images
« Cigars, whisky and no sport », telle était la devise du grand Winston Churchill, décédé à l’âge de… 90 ans ! Il doit se retourner dans sa tombe aujourd’hui en voyant les parlementaires britanniques œuvrer pour faire du Royaume-Uni un royaume sans tabac. Et pourquoi pas une Grande-Bretagne sans Beatles ni chips au vinaigre ? Le Parlement britannique a adopté la semaine dernière une loi interdisant à vie la vente de cigarettes à toutes les personnes nées après 2008. Les personnes nées après le 1er janvier 2009, actuellement âgées de 17 ans ou moins, n’auront jamais le droit d’acheter au Royaume-Uni des produits à base de tabac, comme les cigarettes, même une fois adultes. Le Royaume-Uni est le premier pays en Europe à prendre une telle mesure, et le deuxième au monde après les Maldives, pays où l’islam radical ne cesse de gagner du terrain et où la charia est appliquée pour les ressortissants.

L’objectif d’« éliminer presque complètement le tabagisme chez les jeunes dès 2040 » peut apparaître louable en Angleterre, où la cigarette reste la première cause de décès évitables. Mais, outre que la prohibition n’a jamais été une solution et ne contribue qu’à faire exploser le marché noir, cela rappelle les mauvais souvenirs de la pandémie lorsque les chefs d’État nous expliquaient comment nous laver les mains. Impossible de ne pas penser au Meilleur des mondes d’Aldous Huxley. Dans ce roman dystopique paru en 1932, l’écrivain britannique imaginait un État mondial où la technologie et la science avaient remplacé la liberté et Dieu, où les maladies et la vieillesse avaient été éradiquées. » | Par Alexandre Devecchio, pour Le Figaro Magazine | dimanche 3 mai 2026

Réservé aux abonnés

Cet article important est excellent et très intéressant. Il va droit au but.

Starmer est austère et morose. Il faut espérer que la loi inapplicable de Starmer finira par échouer. De plus, il faut espérer qu'un futur gouvernement aura la sagesse d'abroger cette loi absurde, antidémocratique et illibérale.

Libérons le peuple, ne l'enchaînons pas ! — © Mark Alexander

Le Parlement britannique adopte une loi interdisant la vente de cigarettes aux personnes nées après 2008

LE FIGARO : Toutes les personnes nées après le 1er janvier 2009, et qui ont donc actuellement 17 ans ou moins, ne pourront jamais acheter légalement de cigarettes au Royaume-Uni.

Le gouvernement britannique a salué mardi l'adoption «historique» par le Parlement d'une loi visant à faire du Royaume-Uni un pays sans tabac en prohibant la vente de cigarettes à toutes les personnes nées après 2008. Il s'agit, selon plusieurs médias, du deuxième pays au monde à instaurer une interdiction générationnelle après les Maldives, qui ont prohibé en novembre la vente de tabac aux jeunes nés après le 1er janvier 2007.

Les députés de la Chambre des Communes et les Lords de la chambre haute, se sont entendus lundi sur une version finale du texte, qui doit désormais recevoir l'assentiment royal - une formalité. Wes Streeting, ministre travailliste de la Santé, a estimé qu'il s'agissait d'un « moment historique », avec une « première génération sans tabac protégée d'une vie entière de dépendance et de dommages ». » | Par Le Figaro avec AFP | mercredi 22 avril 2026

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The Joyless, Wooden Starmer and His Killjoy Cronies Announce the Death of Cool...

... and freedom of choice. This is what socialism will do for you!

Proposed Lifetime Smoking Ban to Become Law in Britain

THE NEW YORK TIMES: The proposal, which was approved by Parliament on Tuesday, will ban the supply or sale of tobacco products to anyone born in 2009 or after, permanently.

Britain aims to raise a “smoke-free generation” by permanently banning the sale or supply of tobacco and vape products to anyone born in 2009 or after, with a bill that was approved by Parliament on Tuesday.

The bill applies to people currently 17 years old or younger and aims to keep them from ever picking up the habit in their lifetime. The proposal is expected to soon go into law after the final formality of approval by King Charles III.

Lawmakers say that in practice, the measure means the age of sale for tobacco products will rise over time as the targeted demographic group grows older and could lead to a smoke-free society. The law will apply in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.

The people covered by the law will be “part of the first smoke-free generation, protected from a lifetime of addiction and harm,” said Wes Streeting, the health secretary, on Tuesday. “Prevention is better than cure.” » | Ephrat Livni | Tuesday, April 21, 2026

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Smoking Ban for People Born after 2008 Agreed in the UK | BBC News

Apr 21, 2026 | Children aged 17 or younger will face a lifelong ban on buying cigarettes in the UK, as the Tobacco and Vapes Bill clears Parliament.

Both the Commons and Lords have settled on a final draft of the "landmark" legislation, which aims to stop anyone born after 1 January 2009 from taking up smoking by making it illegal for shops to sell them tobacco, to create a smoke-free generation.

When it gets royal assent, ministers will also have new powers to regulate tobacco, vaping and nicotine products, including their flavours and packaging. I

t is part of a series of measures aimed at tackling the health effects of smoking, one of the UK's leading causes of preventable death, disability and ill health.


This is legislation thought up by undemocratic fools! No party that voted in favour of this will get my vote. This is totally undemocratic and unworkable. Furthermore, it is a gift for criminals and blackmarketeers. A person enjoying a conventional cigarette is the least of our concerns today. Young people are into far worse that tobacco these days. Moreover, this doesn't just impact children; everyone as he/she ages will be impacted by this undemocratic nonsense. It's a pity that these stupid, nanny-state-inclined politicians couldn't find more important things to do. — © Mark Alexander

NIGEL FARAGE: Reform will repeal the generational smoking ban: The puritanical spirit of Oliver Cromwell again stalks the land »

THE GUARDIAN: Bill banning people born after 2008 from buying tobacco clears UK parliament: Ministers hope tobacco and vapes bill, which will become law next week, will create a ‘smoke-free generation’ »

Smoking Is Cool Again Among Gen Z

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NEWSWEEK: Cigarettes appear to be enjoying a cultural renaissance among Generation Z, decades after smoking bans and health concerns drove many to quit.

They’re popping up across social media in edits of celebrities and iconic TV characters, like Sex and the City’s Carrie Bradshaw, making cameos on the runway and appearing in fashion content.

Gen Z, born between 1997 and 2012, has long been seen as wellness-obsessed. In a July 2024 IWSR study, 64 percent of legal drinking-age Gen Zers in the United States said they had not consumed alcohol in the six months leading up to May that year.

And in December 2024, University of Michigan researchers found that the percentage of students who abstained from drugs and alcohol reached record levels that year. Amongst 12th graders alone, 67 percent had shunned drugs—defined in the study as alcohol, marijuana or nicotine cigarettes or e-cigarettes—in the previous 30 days, up from 53 percent in 2017.

And indeed, social media platforms like TikTok and Instagram proliferate a seemingly endless roster of wellness trends, be it the “Great Lock-In” that emerged in September—focusing on bettering yourself to the end of the year—the “75 Hard” 75-day health and fitness plan or the “clean girl aesthetic,” a minimalist beauty and fashion trend. Gen Zers came of age under an algorithm promoting an ultra-clean lifestyle. Now, however, it appears they’re getting acquainted with vices favored by their predecessors. » | Marni Rose McFall | News Reporter | Published: Friday, December 5, 2025. Updated: Thursday, December 18, 2025

Quitting Smoking: Today Is My Fourth Anniversary

MARK ALEXABDER: For those who are interested, today, April 10th, marks exactly four years since I smoked my last cigarette.

Even though I had smoked twenty cigarettes a day for most of my adult life, and even though I derived a great deal of pleasure from my smoking habit, it was a HABIT. It WAS NOT an ADDICTION! For this reason, quitting was relatively easy for me. I quit cold turkey.

Have I ever craved cigarettes since quitting? No, definitely not! But have I missed it occasionally? Certainly, I have. Just like you miss a friend when he/she goes away, or passes on. Because in many ways, cigarettes are like friends; they keep one company.

So many people complain about the smell of the smoke emanating from another’s burning cigarette. I wouldn’t. In fact, since quitting, I have hardly ever smelt cigarette smoke, because I no longer know anyone in my circle of friends who still indulges in the habit. In fact, I would love to smell cigarette smoke one day to remind me of my past pleasure.

Despite having quit, this blog remains a welcoming space for smokers from all over the world. Smoking, to me, is actually one of life’s great pleasures. The western world has grown far too intolerant of the pleasurable habit. I look back fondly on my smoking years.

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Un bel homme qui fume a un certain je ne sais quoi.

Is Banning Smoking "Unconservative"?

Apr 16, 2024 | 'Absolutely nuts' was how former Prime Minister Boris Johnson described Rishi Sunak’s plan to gradually phase out smoking – banning anyone born since the start of 2009 from ever being able to buy cigarettes or tobacco products like vapes.

Liz Truss, who was also briefly prime minister in-between the two men, is also among some critical of the proposal – which she described as 'profoundly unconservative'.

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But will the policy create a smokefree generation? And what will it mean for Conservative Party ideology?

Niall Paterson looks at the health implications with Alice Wiseman, vice president of The Association of Directors of Public Health, and the politics of the policy with Sky’s political editor Beth Rigby and Tory peer Lord Frost, who disagrees with the planned legislation.


The simple answer is YES. Of course it is unconservative. It is also undemocratic — and stupid and unworkable and, and, and. These tw*ts in Parliament—use the vowel of your choice—need some real problems to try and solve. If this stupid law ever passes, it will create new problems rather than solve old ones. Moreover, it will not stop people smoking, either. If anything, it will make it more attractive to young people. Forbidden fruits always are. — © Mark Alexander

Tucker and Buckley Carlson on the One Topic More Forbidden Than Israel

Jan 13, 2026 | Tucker and Buckley Carlson discuss smoking and how you were convinced it makes you a pariah.

Arson and Deadly Feuds: Australia’s Tobacco Wars | Four Corners Documentary

Mar 3, 2025 | Four Corners investigative journalist Dan Oakes uncovers the secrets of Australia’s black-market tobacco trade in Tobacco Wars.

With illicit cigarettes readily available in cash-only stores and distributed by unmarked vans across the country, this investigation reveals a vast network stretching from Melbourne’s suburban tobacconists to international smuggling routes.

Using concealed cameras and exclusive access to law enforcement, the Four Corners team follows the illicit pipeline, exposing the lucrative industry that is fuelling organised crime while robbing the government of billions in lost revenue.

Tobacco Wars investigates the high-stakes underworld where arson attacks, extortion, and deadly feuds are used to control the illegal cigarette market.

As the government grapples with policy responses and law enforcement agencies struggle to disrupt smuggling syndicates, Tobacco Wars raises urgent questions about the country’s ability to curb this thriving illicit trade.


This is what you get when stupid, fanatical, anti-smoking politicians raise the price of cigarettes so much that smokers refuse to buy licit, government-regulated cigarettes because of extortionate prices and turn to much cheaper, black market cigarettes to enjoy a smoke. This is not good governance; rather, it is stupid, irresponsible governance. It doesn’t bring smoking rates down and it causes violence and gang warfare in the form of turf wars to boot. — © Mark Alexander

Here is an excellent NYT article related to this documentary.