He’s a great writer, that’s for sure.
People do not realize that the bulk of the price of tobacco is all TAX.
A pack of Marlboro reds is 35c in India.
“When Raúl Castro is your Milton Friedman, you’re ready for the intellectual firing squad. The thought process of Australia’s legislators should be stood up against the wall of common sense. Care for a last cigarette?”
That was a VERY enjoyable read. If he would have kept on writing, I would have kept reading on and on. What a treat.
I remember the 1st time I went to England. I stopped at Harrod’s to see what this fancy pants place had to offer.
Awesome, awesome, awesome. Luv’d the place.
So I purchased a pack of their brand of fags.
Thought it was interesting a department store would have their own brand.
Went to some pub later that evening. Ran into some funny Irish guys and some ruffian from India. Real nice fellas.
Well, we hadsome beers and it was time to light up and enjoy.
I took out my oack of Harrod’s cigy’s and one guy gave a loud laugh and swiped em out of my hands.
He wanted to know what they set me back and I believe it was a bit more than $10 bucks...20 years ago.
They yelled and said I must be rich. I assured them I wasn’t but, why not try fancy cigarrettes.
Well, two guys wanted to try em. We all lit up and they coughed like crazy and tossed their cigarrettes to the ground.
I toughed it out and thought someone had replaced my cig with paper from WWII and my eyes immediatly shot with pain.
Thought I was going to throw up.
I tossed my cig and stomped it dead.
We went back in to wash that taste out of our mouth with something dark and alcoholly....
I looked on the side of the box and there was their version of the Surgeon General warning: This product “Will” cause cancer...
No keedean...
My Father predicted the odd diseases when the tobacco settlement first went into effect. He said “Theres a huge load of money for the doctors there, but they can only get a piece of it if they can link their specialty to smoking. So watch, soon every medical problem under the sun will be linked to smoking.”
O’rourke rules
Nobody does it better
Love PJ O’Rourke but I see a market for snazzy little cigerette pack covers to hid all those Gawd awful pics.
Ping.
Of course like anything the government do it’s ended up being a complete waste of time and money - nobody even looks at the packs - I have a few smoking mates that joke about it - the ones I am smoking will give me cancer - oh mine will only give me emphysema.
Ah the guberment is there nothing out of the reach of their overbearing stupidity?
Mel
Dumb kids probably think the gross pictures are “cool”.
Maybe they should show Lindsay Lohan and Catherine Zeta-Jones instead.