25-12-17, 11:44 AM
When you watch old film footage it's amazing how many people smoked. It seems like almost everyone had a fag on the go.
You often see the bike and car racers from the past having an already lit fag passed to them immediately after crossing the winning line and pulling up. It was almost part of the culture back then wasn't it.
It just annoys me that all the things they tax most heavily such as cigarettes, petrol and alcohol, supposedly to put people off buying them so much, are all the things that they know people are going to carry on buying.
These taxes hit the poorest in society much harder. If you're life is crap it's understandable that you're going to want something that might alleviate it a bit, but they get disproportionately hammered for it.
You often see the bike and car racers from the past having an already lit fag passed to them immediately after crossing the winning line and pulling up. It was almost part of the culture back then wasn't it.
It just annoys me that all the things they tax most heavily such as cigarettes, petrol and alcohol, supposedly to put people off buying them so much, are all the things that they know people are going to carry on buying.
These taxes hit the poorest in society much harder. If you're life is crap it's understandable that you're going to want something that might alleviate it a bit, but they get disproportionately hammered for it.