tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2215553202978284468.post7809852171491378091..comments2024-02-06T16:17:25.826+00:00Comments on THE GRØNMARK BLOG: Miserable Welsh puritans want to ban e-cigarettes in enclosed public spaces – malign compassion at workScott Gronmarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15118026157459333174noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2215553202978284468.post-44105167333215290972014-04-05T16:07:27.170+01:002014-04-05T16:07:27.170+01:00Sounds very distinguished. I must have tried Crave...Sounds very distinguished. I must have tried Craven A at some stage, but can't remember what they were like - old fashioned by 1965, I suspect. I did once spend a few weeks on Capstan Full Strength trying to prove how manly I was, but even as a callow youth I could tell that this was the cigarette-smoking equivalent of injecting heroin and reverted to No. 6. Passing Clouds were an occasional treat, mainly for that fabulous pink box, but definitely not a manly brand. I've decided that when I'm I'm too old to care I'm going to start smoking a pipe and sod the stained teeth.Scott Gronmarkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15118026157459333174noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2215553202978284468.post-8138678035927335292014-04-05T15:58:06.939+01:002014-04-05T15:58:06.939+01:00If I ever have cause to return to Wales I may have...If I ever have cause to return to Wales I may have to revert to smoking real cigarettes while I'm there just to annoy them.<br /><br />I suspect we would be astonished if we were to smoke a Number 6 now to discover how truly horrible they were. Mind you, they were only 3/6 a packet, if I remember correctly (there's something about having to scramble together pennies to afford your fags that makes the price stick in one's head). Used to be the No.1 cigarette in the UK, but new EU fag pricing rules in 1978 resulted in a mere 5p price difference between them and B&H King Size, and No.6 all but disappeared, finally coughing to a halt in 1993. I moved on to Benson & Hedges as soon as my salary rose to a dizzy £2000 a year - those beautiful gold boxes made every cigarette a special occasion. They now cost £8.61 for 20 in Tesco. Scott Gronmarkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15118026157459333174noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2215553202978284468.post-52753456304087954412014-04-05T15:42:43.328+01:002014-04-05T15:42:43.328+01:00Welcome you Hency and nice words for this blog man...Welcome you Hency and nice words for this blog many information. Goodbye you.Scott Gronmarkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15118026157459333174noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2215553202978284468.post-15112920751191737032014-04-05T15:40:51.066+01:002014-04-05T15:40:51.066+01:00I think Climate Change is the area where neo-purit...I think Climate Change is the area where neo-puritans have revealed their true colours. They don't really care if what they're claiming is true, and they certainly don't care how bad the supposed "cure" is for poor people in poor countries or the world economy as a whole just as long as they can occupy the moral high ground and make the rest of feel really bad about what our selfishness and greed is doing to the planet. I honestly believe it's our duty to blow raspberries and mock these blisters whenever we get the opportunity. Yes, Britain is stuffed with neopuritans, but they're everywhere, really. Regular commenter and fellow-blogger Erik Bartlam is really good on American neopuritans. Scott Gronmarkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15118026157459333174noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2215553202978284468.post-11514798169087665052014-04-04T19:38:40.997+01:002014-04-04T19:38:40.997+01:00We have recently had a new garden fence erected. A...We have recently had a new garden fence erected. As a result, the back gate looks downright slummy. I have prevailed upon Julian, one of the thought leaders on the fencing job, to paint our coat of arms on the gate – a tipped Virginia <i>fumant</i> with Mars bar, and the family motto entwined with delicate wisps of smoke, <b><i><a href="https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=for+your+throat%27s+sake+smoke+craven+a&rlz=1C1CHFX_en-GBGB533GB534&espv=210&es_sm=93&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=2_o-U5exKofxhQeQr4DQAg&ved=0CGkQsAQ&biw=1093&bih=544#facrc=_&imgdii=_&imgrc=E38UPaGXMHqXrM%253A%3BoesdeQ8EIMOSVM%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.oldsydneysigns.com.au%252Fproducts%252FFor-your-throats-sake-smoke-Craven-A.jpg%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.oldsydneysigns.com.au%252Fsigns_7_Cigarette-and-Tobacco-Signs.php%3B600%3B84" rel="nofollow">cravena</a></i></b>David Mosshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12345636878071983416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2215553202978284468.post-3697440682559974782014-04-04T10:29:27.215+01:002014-04-04T10:29:27.215+01:00Nice post your blog. Thanks to many information ge...Nice post your blog. Thanks to many information get this blog. If you find same related blog or <a href="http://www.movapesonline.com/" rel="nofollow">electronic cigarette</a> so visit today.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2215553202978284468.post-85720520872019481392014-04-03T01:12:46.718+01:002014-04-03T01:12:46.718+01:00I knew you when we were young teenagers and we wer...I knew you when we were young teenagers and we were ever so cool -puffing at those cheap Number 6 fags. I have dallied with the gaspers on and off for forty years or so and just stopped entirely last summer when I found I had no tobacco in the house, became slightly frantic and then thought - sod it , I'll just have another whisky and foreswear the 'gold dust', as my grand-father used to call it. <br /><br />Most of my friends and acquaintances do not now smoke and I now find the smell of cigarette smoke most unattractive, if not repellent. <br /><br />At 1 am it's too late in the day for me to embark on a moral argument regarding e- cigarettes but those of my chums who have tried this substitute have found it wanting and have either stopped smoking altogether or reverted to a packet of fags at about £8 a time - holy smoke - 20 a day means about £60 a week....bugger that.<br /><br />If those e-fags work for you, press on, far better than twenty Bensons a day, you will be richer and you will not be a social pariah, unless you go to Wales.<br /> Rileyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07191599030795096843noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2215553202978284468.post-13555691821959264222014-04-02T23:50:55.737+01:002014-04-02T23:50:55.737+01:00There's a damn good book to be written about t...There's a damn good book to be written about the dire effects of neo-puritanism on society. I'm willing to admit there is a positive side to it, but its dismal shadow falls across far too much medical and scientific research, obscuring truth for the sake of satisfaction.<br /><br />E-gaspers are one, ten-a-day-soon-to-be-twenty is another. It is a quality we British sadly have rather a lot of and it is greatly to our detriment. GCoopernoreply@blogger.com