despite what you (or some) might think, no, i really don't have some ambition, will or appetite to do at least one (1) post a year on the subject of cigarettes. well, actually i very much would if any producer or manufacturer of cigarettes (Marlboro in particular, if you are listening) would sponsor me to do so, look you see. a sad reality is that there's not all that much of a life for me to write about, and what there is of it invariably involves cigarettes.
sadly, or if you will alas, this isn't a rundown on the joys of Marlboro. for a potentially further disappointment this is all about the same kind of (ahem) independently source cigarettes as i wrote about as recently as last month, or some time ago, depending on when you are reading this.
my reason (well, most of it) for revisiting these ones is an entirely different kind of warning image on them. yes, for clarification (or as a disclaimer) smoking is quite bad for you and one should either not smoke or quit, whichever is applicable in your life. but also no, i tend to note the warning images and then disregard them. unless, as you can see here in the variations of delights of VHS mode images, they are of some fascinating nature.
it is an unfortunate thing, if not quite a matter of regret, that my Belarusian (or what they speak there) is not all it could be. i have no idea what the text says, but going on the image this particular do not smoke warning is a variation on that "smoking makes you impotent" threat or suggestion. an interesting spin on this one, with other similar ones featuring a chap looking downstairs (as it were) with some visible distress, or that one where there's a cigarette hole burned through where one's private (or intimate) parts should be. allowing for that being (considerably) much more of a naked man than i would wish to have a picture of, i am reasonably taken by the rather elegant ladies' hand giving a clear thumbs down.
following on, as opposed to making this a prequel, from my first post on these cigarettes, do i feel bad about potentially funding the Soviet (or whatever) war effort buy purchasing these? kind of. again, i am not in any way stopping Ukraine from flooding the UK market with cheap cigarettes. to be fair, for all i know (my provider does not take kindly to questions) these are off of Ukraine, and it is that i am funding the side what we in the west are apparently supporting. still, with it being either they are of direct Belarusian provenance of some crafty Ukrainians have swiped a load and are offloading them here to raise "black funds" (i think that's what the CIA calls it), it remains true that every one of these cigarettes i have has likely purchased a bullet to be used in anger. if i were to say "sorry" for this, it would be an apology of the nature of, in the first instance, Sir Keir Starmer but if we are honest virtually any politician except those who never apologise, like Sadiq or Boris. which means i shall say sorry, have the ability (and option) to change and do it differently (or more better) but shall not.
warnings on packets of cigarettes are, of course, a distressing subject which i have written of before. one of the best (in context) was that time when the EU decided to "ban" the UK from using the images they did, presumably because of Brexit. but also there's some cool replacement warning images i have encountered on my travels, like, for instance, this one.
have i ever experienced the "hey what's going on down there" sensation which it is proclaimed that i would totes do by smoking? to be honest it doesn't get all that much use, but i don't really think it has been a problem. maybe it is just a thing where "some" men get affected. like, you know, and i am really surprised no one has kicked off on this one, how the warning images on packets of cigarettes usually only feature one ethnic group.
leaving aside the ethics, or moral ambiguity of purchasing these cigarettes, my main plight with them is very much of my own making. so taken by them have i been (and i never thought i would like any flavoured cigarette) that i have offered one or two to friends of mine who smoke. they have all been just as impressed and have made polite enquiries as if to i could procure them some too. oh. hey ho, if a succession of governments here wish to toss away potential, actual tax revenue by charging so much that we, the people, are forced to find independent distributors, that's on them.
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