The Pleasure of a Cigarette! / Der Genuß einer Zigarette! / Le plaisir d'une cigarette !

Smoking out of pleasure, not addiction! / Rauchen aus Vergnügen, nicht aus Sucht! / Fumer par plaisir, pas par dépendance !
Don't listen to the ignorant politicians! We've had enough of this Puritanical crap! / Hören Sie nicht auf die ignoranten Politiker! Wir haben genug von diesem puritanischen Mist! / N'écoutez pas les politiciens ignorants ! Nous en avons assez de ces conneries puritaines !
With many thanks to Alex Wjorner on Pinterest for this lovely and interesting photograph.
Make pleasure cool again! Make smoking cool again! After all, there are many undeniable benefits to smoking! Google them! Check them out for yourself! Don't be fooled by the naysayer's narrative!

This Is a Picture Especially for the Undemocratic Prime Minister of New Zealand. (I Think Her Name Is Jacinda Ardern.) | Reupload

I hope she fails in her ridiculous, autocratic, extreme anti-smoking policy. She is known to have once been a person who enjoyed cannabis, yet she has a visceral dislike of tobacco. Clearly, she is no history buff; otherwise she would know what the Prohibition (of alcohol) in the United States was like and how it ended. These do-gooders do more harm than the good they wish to bring about. Such people are pains in the butt! – © Mark Alexander
Many thanks to Wattpad on Pinterest for this truly delightful photo of a handsome young man enjoying a smoke which, of course, in a truly democratic country is his birthright.

Sobranie Cocktails: Fine Cigarettes Fit for the Queer Smoker (and Ladies). Russian Cigarettes to Boot!

Quality cigarettes for the discerning queer smoker! Smoke them with pride!
With many thanks to We Heart It on Pinterest for this delightful image. These cigarettes bring back happy memories of more relaxed times, of tmes in which people had a sense of joie de vivre.

A Handsome Man Enjoying a Smoke

Just a simple pleasure which crappy, self-important politicians try and deny us all today.
With many thanks to Capt Jaspare on Pinterest for this truly delightful image.

A Handsome Man Showing Style and Insouciance

With many thanks to wattpad.com on Pinterest for this superb photo.

Smoking Cigarettes : The bête noire of Our Day

Image: Pinterest
The West has gone stark staring mad!
Western politicians make me so angry! They have been waging a war on smokers for years now. They have made it virtually impossible to smoke anywhere outside of one’s home, thus taking away all pleasure of socializing with others in cafés, restaurants, or in any other public space. This, by the way, has led to loneliness in society.

But more than this, they are pricing smokers out of the market. In the UK, the price of a packet of Marlboro Reds is £12.50! Moreover, I have been informed that the price of such a packet will soon increase yet again!

Of that £12.50, probably £12 of that price is tax! So taxing cigarettes so much is a good money-spinner for governments. This is shameless taxation, just as the use of speeding fines is. UK roads are peppered with speed cameras. Another great money-spinner for successive governments. But I digress.

I am fortunate inasmuch as I can do without smokes. In fact, I have gone a week without smoking even one cigarette. Being without is not a problem for me. I have decided that I am not going to fill the coffers of this dreadful government with any more tax than I absolutely must. But I must say that I do resent doing without a small pleasure because our governments are totally and utterly irresponsible re- smoking.

Why do I say this? For a number of reasons… First of all, I do not think that smoking in moderation is particularly harmful. People who have given up smoking look for other pleasures in life, pleasures like sweet foods, which lead to diabetes. I am diabetes-free, and I attribute that fact to being a moderate smoker for most of my adult life.

You see, not smoking is only better than smoking if people do not substitute one ‘bad habit’ with another. But only the few can do that. Most people, when they give up smoking, start partaking of other things to replace the pleasure of smoking.

But what really annoys me about the pathetic Western politicians we are being led by is this: They are relaxing the laws against smoking other substances whilst at the very same time taking the pleasure of smoking a simple cigarette out of the reach of many hard-working people. Such politicians deserve to be voted out of office. Pronto!

© Mark Alexander
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Cigarette. Inhalation. Contemplation.

Zigarette. Einatmung. Betrachtung.
With many thanks to Death By Elocution for this expressive photo.