Why smoking IS cool and glamorous!

Now the council is "consulting" on whether to stop people age under 18 from seeing films on general release - simply because they happen to show characters smoking.
Urging them on is an earnest "yoof" organisation called D-MYST (funny how such bodies always have dead ugly names).
What's proposed is that the council should use its powers to upgrade even the tamest films to an 18-certificate "if they depict images of tobacco smoking".
Oh, the council is getting very excited by this, consulting with "stakeholder" organisations, community groups and businesses etc.
That, of course, is something the city council loves doing - they're always happy to be hosing away taxpayers' money on phoney projects.
This is the same council that's just wasted £12,000 on workshops and "guess who?" games to encourage councillors and senior officers to know and understand each other better. Like that's going to happen with the history of vicious back-biting at Liverpool City Council!
I'm sure all the smoking-in-films consultation will be designed to get just the result the city council wants - spurious evidence of support for a ban on young people watching any film that dares to show a character holding a bifter.
Whatever next? Will the council's plastic bizzies insist on random inspections of the homes of working class families just to ensure that no under-18 person is watching Coronation Street? Britain's top soap regularly features characters smoking and enjoying it.
And well done Corrie for sticking two fingers up to the Health Nazis! I am sure the Street's bosses have been put under huge pressure to phase out scenes of Deirdre, Becky and Liz etc, smoking - because of the "bad example" that sets.
These publicly funded anti-smoking campaigns are truly sinister in their attempts to rewrite cultural history and force people to stop taking part in a long-established social pleasure.
Not since the Nazis ruled Germany has there been such a determined attempt to stigmatise smoking.
The Nazi anti-tobacco campaign included: banning smoking in trams, buses and city trains, promoting health education, limiting cigarette rations, organising medical lectures for soldiers, and raising the tobacco tax.
The Nazi authorities also imposed restrictions on tobacco advertising and smoking in public spaces, and regulated restaurants and coffeehouses.
But Hitler's henchmen never went as far as our current Labour Government and its cronies in councils, schools and the NHS. It never managed to ban smoking totally inside virtually all workplaces, including pubs and restaurants.
Now, to finish, here's something for D-MYST and the city council to stick up their fundamentalist backsides ...
I want to put make known the two great health benefits of smoking, Yes, that's right - THE HEALTH BENEFITS OF SMOKING.
Here are the self-evident reasons why smoking enormously benefits the health of those who partake...
(1) Smoking is the best reliever of stress we have. And stress is a killer. Our modern day anti-smoking Nazis, by their campaign of pressuring and persecuting smokers, have added to the stress of millions of good people.
I have no doubt many will die unnecessarilybecause of the utterly misguided efforts of public health zealots, including all those employed to wage war on smokers by the Liverpool City Council, and the similar joyless zealots employed by the Death Star otherwise known as Wirral Council.
I have no doubt that many more people will now suffer fatal strokes and heart attacks while under stress because they have been coerced into giving up smoking.
(2) A massive problem for our country is obesity. People who are pressured into quitting smoking will start snacking as a replacement for ciggie breaks. The result will be more obesity. More fatal heart attacks.
So let's reject the twisted propaganda that's dished out by the State about smoking and the smoking ban.
Not that this is primarily a health issue - it's a FREEDOM issue, and that is more important. There is little point being healthy if you have your freedom taken away.
And if the movies taught us one thing that's true, it's this...smoking IS glamorous, cool, and thoroughly enjoyable.
The campaign to overturn the smoking ban starts here!