I hadn't seen a fag packet for a while and was horrified last weekend to realise that

[Mo Britain less Europe]

It hasn't. That's what you see in public because of so many restrictions, a quarter of the population still smokes.

[World's End Stella]

It hasn't. That's what you see in public because of so many restrictions, a quarter of the population still smokes.

Yes but more and more in private and it probably is only a matter of time until cigarette smoking stops almost entirely.

I wouldn't go long any stocks associated with smoking tobacco, Mo.

[Mo Britain less Europe]

Tobacco use is growing in South America, Asia and Africa. However much the European wimps might want it's not going to blow away.

If they were serious about stopping smoking they would ban it or they would make vaping more acceptable.

[Burney]

Tobacco use is growing in South America, Asia and Africa. However much the European wimps might want it's not going to blow away.

If they were serious about stopping smoking they would ban it or they would make vaping more acceptable.

Bans on vaping in public spaces are utterly ridiculous and stand up to no scrutiny whatsoever. Attacks on vaping by the anti-smoking lobby in fact only serve to reveal that at core these people just hate the idea that anyone might ever enjoy any smoking-related product and just want to stop them at all costs.