so many HMs seem to smoke
Ollie
Sam
Lee
Jim
Lionel
Jasmine

I'm surprised more of them don't. It's a very underrated habit

I was wondering when this would pop up. Yes and the point is what exactly? It wasn't illegal the last time I checked and brings in an enormous amount of revenue to the Treasury.

Never heard it described like that before.

There was quite an argument on the forum over "the disgrace" of I think Mario stopping Courtney from trying smoking last summer.

The "Disgrace argument" was one of the daftest things I have ever heard

Haha! This made me LOL

Indeed it is

I am very grateful to smokers. They save me and all tax payers even more income tax!

At what price though

It's a free country absolutely and they can do what they like, just tax gamblers more and you would get a similar result

Very overrated in my opinion, in that nicotine is an addictive drug that doesn't have the decency to get you high!

None of them are smoking; in fact, some are downright ugly.

Luisa smokes also

I have to admit I was surprised to see that Sam smokes thought she'd be the clean type.

What is your point ?

They are pathetic addicts.
That is the point.

Are smokers not clean then?

It's just smoking, why be so judgmental about it ?

I hate the way smokers are viewed in this country, it's pathetic.

Na I meant clean as in no addictions....but everyone has a vice

Yes this is still a free country, for now. What action do you propose to stop anyone CHOOSING to smoke tobacco. Prohibition? That will never happen, thank goodness, while the government profits. Alcohol does far more damage to the health and welfare of the nation and actually costs the taxpayer money.
I agree with taxing gambling more.

I couldn't remember if Dappy smokes? that clean living boy.

hate smoking , you might as well glue your mouth over an car exhaust

I think he does, roll ups I think I've seen him waving a pouch of baccy around.

If people want to smoke then let them what's it to do with anyone? Alcohol kills more people than all drugs put together did you know that? how many of you booze?

Most of them are probably social smokers who have started smoking heavily in the house due to boredom and lack of anything else to do.

I'm sure there were more last series.

Nothng can really stop them choosing it. If you don't watch Boardwalk Empire starring the incredible Steve Buscemi essentially about crime warfare during the prohibition era. Obviously its a drama but its roughly a fair representation. When alcohol was banned it just meant people had to pay more for it and it made huge gangsters out of the characters real life counter parts (Enoch Johnson, Al Capone, Arnold Rothstein and so on).

I don't think anything can force them to choose to stop but for their own health they probably should

Glad you agree on the gambling. I spent 4 years working for Rank Leisure Group switching between Mecca Bingo and Grosvenor Casino's. Even in the lighter gambling of Bingo you could get the same people coming in every day and putting £500-£1000 pound every single day in slot machines and Bingo. Maybe one day of the week they would walk out with a profit and used that as means to justify what they did.

At Mecca Bingo I was a Team Leader and Non Gaming Supervisor (Legally can be in charge of the club while gambling is not in play - the result of passing an annoyingly long test) before leaving the company and in the short time there were people who lost their husbands and wives due to gambling. Relatives of a gambler coming in asking me to ban them from all Mecca Bingo clubs (Which we obliged too) but the gambling issue gets overlooked so much

Maybe the tax thing would help it steer in the right direction

i nearly spat my drink all over my keyboard