cigarettes too ex liao la

I smoke. I like cigarettes. Studies, food, booze, sex, movies, clubbing - it's all better if you have a smoke afterward.

When a friend asks me to stop smoking, that is fine. They are advising me in a personal capacity. As figures in my life, they have every right to do so.

On the other hand, modern legislation with regards to cigarettes is akin to the government trying to legislate morality. Bloody hell. I think the Singaporean (and UK and Perth) government(s) wants to raise the price of cigarettes (through taxes) to the point where people don't want to buy them at all. They’re basically trying to make cigarettes illegal without making them illegal (and, incidentally, lining the government's pockets, as the executive now makes more per pack than the cigarette companies do). But no, unlike Keef’s dear uncle Chee Soon Juan, I would not accuse anyone of misappropriating public funds :P

The dumb Americans tried to legislate morality in this way once before; when they made alcohol illegal. That didn't work and was just a bone-headed a proposition. If I want to kill myself with cigarettes, that's my goddamn right.

This country's puritanical roots run deep; as a culture we are more reserved about sex, drugs, and most anything else fun than just about anywhere in the world (except the Muslim countries who’d bloody kill you for drinking alcohol). Smoking's just another example of this lunacy. And as long as tobacco remains legal I will continue my silent protest.

I wish the government would think like me.

Let’s light some shit up.