Posted on 11/09/2017 6:54:38 AM PST by Olog-hai
Pope Francis has outlawed the sale of cigarettes at the Vatican in a bid to lead by example on healthy living. […]
“The reason is very simple: the Holy See cannot contribute to an activity that clearly damages the health of people,” it said, adding that smoking claims more than seven million lives every year, according to the World Health Organization. […]
Francis, who has only one lung, does not smoke. He has let the locals keep their other guilty pleasure: tax-free alcohol.
The cigarettes and booze are sold in a luxury duty-free shop, opened in 2003 in what was once the Vatican’s magnificent railway station but is now home to everything from designer handbags and shoes to flat-screen televisions. …
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Hitler would’ve been proud of these actions... Being the anti-smoker that he was.
Um, homosexuality?
Haven’t heard anything about the gay orgies with cardinals in the Vatican. The pope-a-dope must have fired all the cardinals and cleaned up the Vatican.
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Another thread different source is anyone cares to read the comments there on.
https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3603107/posts
Great! Now they will be sneaking smokes in the catacombs.
black market kiosk next to St. Peter's old hole in the wall -- who will win the war over control of such subterranean intrigues?
So now you have to go from the Vatican, all the way to Italy, to get smokes?
That takes like, two whole minutes to get there...
That's false accusation! you hater! bet you hate mother and mary too but are hiding that for now!
The gay boiy regularly scheduled(?) party-parties took place in an apartment some distance off-site of Vatican borders.
them wasn't cigarettes they was smokin', so there(!) not against the latest law, and outside of Vatican jurisdiction and responsibility. but go ahead and try to sue it'll be stuck in italian courts 'till long after the cows come home, are sent to retirement facilities to live out their last and they'll be hardly anyone left around who remembers the question that was mussolini's screw-up anyway, much less interested in straight answers, so why are you complaining? It's The Church's ™ business not yours.
Sounds like Frankie is going to have to send somebody out to pick up a pack of smokes in the future.
That takes like, two whole minutes to get there...
How familiar are you with traffic conditions in Rome?
Two minutes? We may get there alive, but not without denting up this cab. Save yourself, buy at the kiosk and save...
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