Budget day and traditionally a time for mothers and children to rush down to the supermarket and join the queue to buy fags before the 6pm price increase, while Dad does the same at the petrol station. These days any self-respecting proletarian smoker buys his or her fags from a dodgy bloke in a pub who has brought 50,000 of them over from Spain in the boot of a Mondeo. Damn your eyes, Mr Brown and all of your smug Cabinet colleagues - and more power to the elbow of smokers who don't pay you a penny in tax. And I say this as somebody who has been a non-smoker for almost three months, apart from the odd one.
Smokers of all countries unite.
Comments