Cigarettes

[ivor4781]

who compensates the shop / store keepers for cigarettes they have in stock, now illegal to sell from today now the new ruling has come in

[Buenchico]

Will this do?
http://jedmorey.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Occupy-Wall-Street-Day-18-016.jpg

[RobNorth]

Cloverjo:
We have been slowly but surely inured to this stuff - you may find it amusing now but given a few years and you wouldn't even notice it.
In 1989 a collegue from Germany moaned to me about a girl in our (large 100 plus people) office who whistled and said it should be banned. Bemused, I asked him how and he said a notice on the board would do it...I explained that this would result in everyone whistling on day 1, front page on day 2 and Parliament on day 3 but he couldn't get his head round it. Another bloke who heard this later told me I had wasted my breath - he'd spent some years in Germany and said that's the way it is. My point is that I can clearly feel the difference between 1989 and the present when out comes to individual liberty and I am now certain that his fix for the whistling thing would now prevail.

[EDDIE51]

I remember as a child getting a 'Junior Smokers Kit' every Christmas .
It had a Chocolate cigar , sweet cigarettes and sweet tobacco, made from grated coconut dusted with cocoa powder .

[EDDIE51]

Just Goggled 'Chocolate Cigar' and found this
https://www.treasureislandsweets.co.uk/chocolate-tools-cigars/chocolate-cigars-milk-chocolate-cuban-style.html
You can still buy them!!!

[EDDIE51]

The same place sells sweet tobacco as well!
https://www.treasureislandsweets.co.uk/novelty-chocolates/sweet-tobacco-aka-spanish-gold.html
Also edible' paper money' and chocolate swiss army knives !

[Islay]

Eddie and you let her care for your grandchildren!!! Those children are in danger!

Ivor, most shops have run their stocks down, the shop in my village has been ordering the barest minimum for months now to ensure they don't have loads left.

[mikey4444]

It seems that Eddie has a problem here, and I don't think we should castigate him at all. He is damned if he does and damned if he doesn't.

[EDDIE51]

Islay, We have the grandchildren stay with us at least one or two days a week. She has improved in the last few months, at one time we had her kids 90% of the time and they would go days or even weeks without seeing her. I have reported 2 of the dealers she used to crimestoppers and they seem to have gone out of business ,but of course there is always another one ready to supply.
She has managed to cut down on the amount of dope she uses so hopefully things are on the up!

[Peter Pedant]

presumably it is sale and return
give us your old stock and we will give you repackaged tobacco to sell onto the young and wreck their lives

what is the wording ?

you just have a brown pack ( like one of those old match box covers) and sell the stuff in that and once it is sold - take the empty cover back over the counter for re use ....

[Peter Pedant]

erm what is this thread about ?

[goodgoalie]

Thanks for the links, Chris; but when I said 'working man' I was envisaging a black-and-white photo of a man in a cloth cap or similar. Have I defeated you? :)

[baza]

I went into a small local branch of a well known supermarket chain to buy 30g of Old Holborn, cashier turns to the cupboard , opens the door and starts to search among all the dark packages. We only stock what used to be the yellow baccy now. I have bought it from here before, so she looked again, look she said its in alphabetical order, I then pointed out that Holborn would be under H but Old Holborn would be under O, away I went feeling smug with my baccy.