The Anonymous Widower

Catch Them Young

The second story on BBC Breakfast News is about dealers selling cheap cigarettes out of tab-houses.  It highlights how many of these cigarettes are sold to children.  My friend in Addenbrooke’s is there because of a smoking related disease.  And she started as a child, because the local newsagent would sell her cigarettes because that was one of the ways he could make a profit.

Unfortunately, we can’t sue him, as the shop is now shut and I have a feeling it shut because he got lung cancer. I could say that the newsagent got his just deserts, but I won’t, as nobody no matter how bad their crime deserves that.

But we must do more to stop this evil trade.

In the BBC report, they suggest higher punishments for those caught smuggling cigarettes.  It probably wouldn’t work, but I’d get a lot of satisfaction to see smugglers getting banged up for a few years.

October 28, 2009 - Posted by AnonW | Health | Tobacco