dangermows
Striker
Isnt the average life expectancy of a teetotaller short than that of a moderate drinker?
Die of boredom.
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Isnt the average life expectancy of a teetotaller short than that of a moderate drinker?
A dying breed mate.Just been a discussion on the wireless about how smoking has no place in the modern world. Which was a strange conclusion IMO.
Also repeatedly concluded smokers are selfish people. Never smoked myself but have plenty of mates who did, and some that still do, and none of them are selfish people, yet that insult is always hoyed about.
Smokers are people too remember. And they also put plenty of cash into the coughers.
It brings in way to much revenue for the government to stop it.As a smoker for most of my life, they're right, no matter which way you cut it. Smoking is just plain stupid.
I still say ban smoking now at the age of children starting school - 12yrs to get used to the idea and they will be the first teens to start life essentially tobacco free.
You don’t think the conclusions have been drawn following decades of work?
And I’m not saying I don’t have a drink myself.
So all the wrong conclusions in the past were done off the cuff?
Isnt the average life expectancy of a teetotaller short than that of a moderate drinker?
Nah but as with most things, Haroldolphus, the more data you accumulate the more reliable/accurate the conclusions you can draw from it.
It’s an inconvenient conclusion for both of us but then we both accept the risks of it, right?
I would stick myself in the non drinker category now apart from when I socialise. I still socialise a fair bit mind.
Are we allowed to count the time we are in bed asleep? In which case I’ve been off the sauce for ages.
I just never drink in the house anymore. Last few years it has dwindled to nothing. I can take the carto BBQ etc, not drink and still have a laugh. Just gigs and stuff are still pissed affairs.
I put it down to getting old.
I love beer, wine and G&T. I love going to the pub with mates and having a few scoops. A bottle of wine over dinner or some bubbles in the sunshine at Lord’s to pretend, just for an afternoon, that I am anything other than scum.
I am trying to get fit by losing some timber. I’m 45 now so in the danger zone. I’ve never smoked but had a full career of knocking back the sauce. I think it is prudent to cut right back and only drink in moderation. Same with red and processed meat. I’m not a veggie by a long way but go most days without eating meat.
They don’t stick a shit load of money into the system. As someone already said the cost to the nhs of treating smokers gobbles it all up.
Dunno if anyone else has mentioned it yet as I'm still reading through the thread, but smokers put a lot more money into the system than they take out. Depending on which report you believe, it's somewhere between 8x and 10x as much that they pay in tobacco taxes than they take out in nhs medical costs, and that doesn't even take into account that they also draw less money out of pension funds than non-smokers by dying earlier.
Smokers are the saints of modern Britain, nobly killing themselves for the sake of the ungrateful populace that berates them and calls them smelly.
Here's to all the smokers. Much better people than the selfish non-smokers who happily get a cheap ride through their lives on the back of the extra money in the system because of the smokers.
They’d be even more heroic if they bought the tabs and didn’t smoke them. Win win!
Best way man.You’ll be on this planet but 10 seconds behind every one else....