First the smokers, now the drinkers

[thinfourth2]

Well Scotland is bringing in minimum pricing for drink and smoking is just about banned.

So what is the next thing that our leaders will save us from.

[Piersman2]

Ourselves.

So long as the cure involves something that can be taxed.

[otolith]

Fat, sugar, salt. Though I don't think they're done with alcohol yet.

[BoRED S2upid]

Don't forget driving that is soon to be a thing of the rich along with smoking and drinking make mine a large one

[XCP]

I have given up both drinking alchohol and smoking in the last year.
Has saved me quite a bit of money!

[Piersman2]

otolith said:

Fat, sugar, salt. Though I don't think they're done with alcohol yet.

Yep these are all good, they can save us from all of these by taxing them.

[Piersman2]

XCP said:

I have given up both drinking alchohol and smoking in the last year.
Has saved me quite a bit of money!

I switched to e-cigs about 2 months ago, saving me a fortune!

[Ali G]

Piersman2 said:

OurselvesThemselves.

Since they have so right royally screwed up just about everything in the self-serving pursuit of satisfying their own egos.

[Andy Zarse]

thinfourth2 said:

So what is the next thing that our leaders will save us from.

Self-combusting diesel cars!

[Lost_BMW]

Andy Zarse said:

thinfourth2 said:

So what is the next thing that our leaders will save us from.

Self-combusting diesel cars!

Boom, boom!




Or was it fizzz, wooshhh?

[chrisispringles]

Thank fk I'm going to university in England and not Scotland. I don't need Alex Salmond to tell me to drink less; I can tell when I'm pissed so why can't those clowns just leave me alone?

[glazbagun]

I'm going to go with "low quality" pirated DVD's.

[TheD]

They are really starting to pee me off. Keep the feck out of my life. These used to be what are known as life style choices. Stopping smoking in pubs etc is fair enough. No argument there. But they are slowly but surely creeping into our private life, and using the state to decide how I should live.

A bit OTT in my statement maybe but I feel many things are being eroded away through state intervention in what is peoples private life.

[12gauge]

Yay, we can all cheaply brew our own and poison ourselves and blow up buildings like the Russians and their vodka, and the poles in Boston.

http://www.metro.co.uk/news/869272-vodka-brewing-b...

Thanks once again do gooder Nazi politicians and bureaucrats.

[Pommygranite]

But is it really going to affect you? Are you going to be drinking the cheap ste stuff?

[Einion Yrth]

Pommygranite said:

But is it really going to affect you? Are you going to be drinking the cheap ste stuff?

Ever heard the phrase 'The thin end of the wedge'?

[bob1179]

I'm moving to Scotland in a couple of weeks - this can only be a bad sign...

[williamp]

this "thin end of the wedge" has been going on since, possilby King John in the 1200's. 800 years is an awfully long wedge!

[Pommygranite]

Einion Yrth said:

Pommygranite said:

But is it really going to affect you? Are you going to be drinking the cheap ste stuff?

Ever heard the phrase 'The thin end of the wedge'?

Sure - ever heard the saying 'does it really matter?'?

[Einion Yrth]

Pommygranite said:

Einion Yrth said:

Pommygranite said:

But is it really going to affect you? Are you going to be drinking the cheap ste stuff?

Ever heard the phrase 'The thin end of the wedge'?

Sure - ever heard the saying 'does it really matter?'?

Depends how far they choose to try and drive the wedge really, doesn't it? At the moment I don't know, but I'm a deeply suspicious and cynical old codger and I have my doubts.