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Eh

I am a smoker – BUT surely there are more important matters for the States to be discussing?

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Caroline

Can someone please tell me what the World is coming to, I am well over 25, surely if I want to smoke, drink or whatever that should be my decision, so on the odd occassion I run out of ‘fags’ I value a machine, I am not hurting anyone by this, so why is it so important for the States to hold a meeting to discuss the removal of same. Is it not more important to discuss the future of vandalism etc., on the Island ???

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Expat80

In my estimation a total ban on cigarette vending machines was the second-best decision ever made. And in my estimation a complete and total ban on cigarettes,period, would be the #1 best decision ever made.

Don’t cigarette smokers realise they are killing themselves long before their time with the poisonous weed? Will it never sink in that when they smoke just one cigarette they suck 4,000 deadly chemicals into their bodies with each lungful of smoke?

Ask anyone who is dying of emphysema or lung cancer whether cigarettes should be readily available for sale.

I have mild emphysema. Upon learning this from my Doctor – and after 57 years of smoking cigarettes – I quit. It was not easy. But I am excited that I have quit. And I am equally thrilled that I am managing my emphysema at a life-sustaining level. It is not getting any worse. But If I could go back to the age of 15, to that day out in the garden when my Dad gave me my first cigarette, I would. And I would never ever smoke cigarettes.

I quit, by the way, using psychology and not with the ‘help’ of any of the modern ‘help’ drugs such as the patch etc as every one of these medically prescribed items has side effects that are either addictive in themselves or have unhealthy side effects. Do your internet research, you will find that to be true.

I quit by thoroughly reading and following the instructions in Allan Carr’s excellent book ‘The Easy Way To Stop Smoking’. His system is brilliant. It is psychological. And it works! It worked for me and for millions like me. First I borrowed the book from the library (just to be sure this wasn’t another ‘scam’)…..

…..- by the way, I have nothing to gain by recommending this book to you, nothing, that is, other than knowing that I may be helping you to become more healthy and to live longer and not die screaming with excrutiating pain.) -…..

……and then, halfway through reading the library book, I took the book back to the library and bought myself a copy, one that I could use a marker on and make written notes in.

I finished the book. The psychology worked. Now I am not a smoker. I will never smoke again. I am excited by that fact. Indeed I am elated. And so is my wife. Heck, I am over the moon about it!! Way over the moon!! And I feel so much healthier. In fact, I’ve never felt more healthy than I do today!

Just one more thing would make my day though, and that would be if all cigarettes/cigars and smoking itself were totally banned from the island and the island became smoke-free.

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Martino

Excellent post Expat80 and congrats on finally winning your battle to quit. You tell it as it is. The bottom line is that banning vending machines is a great move – even if it stops a single 15-year-old taking up the habit like you did (to your own great cost in health terms) 57 years ago.

The proposers of this requete are playing petty politics. This is yoyo government of the worst kind. The decision has been made. Throw this silly, retrograde proposal out, without any further debate, and move on to all the big social and economic issues that these dopey deputies should be dealing with instead.

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