So, where does it stop?

The Nannies of Queensland are banning smoking in cars with kids, with on the spot fines of $150 if you smoke in the car with a child under the age of 16.

So, when will they start banning smoking in your own home? Eating greasy foods? Chocolate? Where will it end?

My father used to smoke in the car when my brother and I were kids... and when mum was little (oh, wait, she's still little, maybe it did effect her!). It never had any effect on us... koff koff koff.

I smoked from about, er, teens to the age of 32, but stopped because the husband to be didn't smoke, I couldn't smoke at work, and cigs were nearly $2 a packet.

I don't care if people smoke in the street, it's their lungs. I prefer not to eat when someone's smoking - I never used to smoke and eat at the same time (drink, yeah, but not eat).

Many years ago I was taken to see Reg Livermore in Betty Blokk Buster Follies. I loved the show! He sang a song called the tobacco song which I thought was so funny. I can't find it performed to share with you, but apparently Miriam Karlin (Rag Trade, loved that show), sang it. Here are the lyrics:

MY LAST CIGARETTE

Tobacco, Tobacco, I hate you, I do
Like Venus I'd look if it wasn't for you
But I'll give up the habit, I will even yet
When I've had just one more cigarette.

It was not the whisky, it was not the wine
That made such a wreck of this body of mine
But I'll give up the habit I will even yet
When I've had just one more cigarette.

Under my eyes are a couple of bags
I blame it all on to a packet of fags
But I'll give up the habit, I will even yet ,
When I've had just one more cigarette

My teeth are all yellow and so is my tongue
I breathe through a kipper, I call it a lung
But I'll give up the habit, I will even yet,
When I've had just one more cigarette

Nail in my coffin, so pale and so thin,
I am a fool to keep knocking you in
You say that you'll kill me, how much do you bet
When I've had just one more cigarette

I'll fling the packet away, away,
Fifty times in a week I say,
Fling the packet away away,
When I've had just one more cigarette.

I may add to this later.

Oh, here's another one I found, but again, no performance of the song:

SMOKERS SONG
(Peter Ross / Hamish Imlach)
Now I'm a social outcast
A modern-day refugee
Joy turns to gloom when I walk into a room
They all turn their back upon me
I'm not a thug or a mugger
I've not murdered anyone yet
But you would think I was Charles bloody Manson
When I light up a cigarette

Some folk get their kicks from alcohol
Some stuff their nose with cocaine
Some folk like knocking old women about
Some like tae batter their weans
There's masochists, sadists or rapists
Folk that like dressing in drag
I'm no' like them, that's no' my game
Gimme peace just to light one more fag

You can snuff it doing too much exercise
You can snuff it not doing enough
You can snuff it by eating too little
You know, you can snuff it eating too much
You can snuff it staying out late at night
You can snuff it lying in your bed
So my way of snuffing is to keep right on puffing
It's on my own bloody head

Spare a thought for all the smokers
Doing their bit for the Crown
Remember when a smoker lights up
He's keeping your income tax down

Yes he is
He's keeping your income tax down

This is where I found the words for these songs.