Greek Smoking Ban ... completely and utterly ignored! **Updated**

l've just spent a week in Rhodes, Greece and can truthfully say that l've not seen the smoking ban there. l've been in many bars, clubs (prob too many) and restaurants and smoking was prevalent in all of them bar none. Also the hotel l stayed in had ashtrays in all the rooms bar none. People smoke everywhere and are certainly not a target for denormalisation as smokers and non-smokers mix freely and happily.. There is no tutting, pulling faces, coughing,waffing of hands etc etc .... which you would expect at least from the British anti-smoking righteous that are on holiday there. Do the righteous lose their bottle when they leave the UK or what? You don't hear a peep from them despite being surrounded by smokers virtually everywhere.Where do the righteous go to avoid us smokers? ... do they stay in their rooms or what? Oh the torment us smokers must cause them!

On the way back at Rhodes Airport we were waiting at our gate for the flight. Each gate has it's own enclosed area. l was sat down on the floor in front of friends reading my book and started to use my electronic ciggy. A few moments later my friends alerted me to the fact that the couple sat next to them had moved. lt seemed they had tutted and made faces when l was using my electronic ciggy. l laughed and realised the righteous were coming from beneath their rocks again now they were about to leave Rhodes ... not all the way out from underneath the rocks mind. They'll wait to get back to UK to do that!

UPDATE  

Whilst on about the subject of the righteous, it would be amiss of me not to mention their other favourite campaign ... protecting the children from predatory paedophiles and sexual imagery etc.In the UK there is an endless stream of regulatory measures aimed at this. These all come with the banning mantra .... raunchy videos, taking photos of children whether in parks, school plays or whatever, banning certain clothing, censoring the internet, turning schools into prison camps ... the list is endless.

So what happens when we go on holiday to the sun kissed beaches of Greece, Spain, Bulgaria etc? The kids, pre-teens, 13yr olds etc are running about the pool, beaches in bathing costumes, part bathing costumes or in the case of the toddlers, no costumes whatsoever. They play with new friends they've found and do so very happily. They are surrounded by adults in swimming attire which in many cases when worn by adult females is so miniscule it leaves little to the imagination. Wrinkled Weasel has many visits to his site because of a certain brand of such attire ... their name? ....Wicked Weasel   Even attire such as this is reduced further as females remove the top and go topless.

Cameras are everywhere! Families taking them of their kids, couples taking them of each other, friends taking them of friends, etc etc. Yet we don't hear any of the rightteous condemning this or running off to inform the local police. Why? ... because people are enjoying themselves and not freaking out looking for a bogeyman (who seems only to live in the UK). Everyone is on holiday and making friends with people they never knew before and this includes people from other nationalities. Kids are perfectly safe as are everyone else. They don't need the righteous to protect themselves or their kids ... they do it for themselves.

On top of this is of course the abundance of alcohol and smoking enjoyed by holidaymakers. Taking into account all the above, one has to ask ...

Do the righteous actually go on holiday????? Maybe they stay in the UK with the predatory paedophile???

Terrorising the Anti-Smoking Righteous!

One of our guests at the smoky-drinky last night is having a great deal of fun with the anti-smoking zealots. He saves some of his cigarette butts in a small ziplock plastic bag and when the opportunity arises he takes one or two out and leaves them where they can be found. This can be in restaurants, council waiting rooms, doctors waiting rooms, offices, airports, airline/tran toilets and so on.

Sometimes for added effect he leaves a disposable ashtray too. He says it's hilarious to see the anti-smoking righteous go into acute terrified panic mode, rushing to report it and then trying to find the deadly assassin smoker.

l must say l love it ... but then l would, wouldn't l?  l am an evil smoker! ... a smoking terrorist, in fact.

Denormalised smoker

This is a photo of a man who the Righteous want to denormalise. They don't care that he is forced out of restaurants, pubs, cafes no matter what the weather. Wind, rain, sub-zero temps, snow ... the Righteous don't care. They don't care that he only has one leg ... out he goes.

The Righteous and their acolytes insult and pore scorn on him and others like him.The Righteous rant about their right to be smoke free but say nothing about this man's rights because to them he doesn't have any.

Oh, who is he? He's William Guarnere, otherwise known as Wild Bill Guarnere and now 87 years old. Former WW2 Paratrooper ....  Easy Company, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne ... Silver Star, 2 Bronze Stars, 2 Purple Hearts. He lost his leg at the Battle of the Bulge whilst trying to rescue his wounded friend who also had his leg blown off.

Recognise the name? He was portrayed in the HBO series Band of Brothers.

lf any of the Righteous are reading this ... you make me puke!

Drink Warning Sticker

I am indebted to the designer of this label and P&O Ferries who thought it important enough to stick it on a 1 Litre bottle of Jack Daniels that l purchased from their onboard shop.

Thanks for the thought guys but it really wasn't necessary .... no matter how drunk l get l never wake up next to a fat, beer bellied, ugly lass!