40% of India’s health problems linked to smoking: Ramadoss
Please sir, go ahead and ban the sale of cigarettes. Stop preaching us to stop smoking when you can simply make it illegal!
Ramadoss
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Aamir Khan is human after all
He cannot handle the pressure and has started smoking again. What a shame.
I am doing no better. I am smoking more than ever. Nothing to be proud about of course. But I really don’t care.
Jab Bhi Cigarette Jaltee Hai
This is my new theme song! Awesome stuff especially the Jazz version.
Movies this week…
Jab We Met: No point discussing this. Crap movie would skip it.
No Smoking: Would have skipped it but for the song… Jab bhi cigarette jalti hai, main jalta hoon!
Superbad: Great reviews for this movie. I should be watching it sometime this weekend.
Bal Ganesh: Umm. Nope.
No Smoking
Husband: Is baar anniversary pe kya chahiye?
Wife: Divorse.
Husband: Itna budget nahi hai mera.
The irony for smokers in India
Government cannot ban smoking in India. But they cannot promote it either. The tobacco industry makes them huge amount of money. But they cannot be seen as promoting something which fills their coffers.
Now, let’s think about the smoker. Legally… he cannot smoke at a public place. He now cannot smoke while driving. Smoking while someone else is driving? REAL BAD IDEA.
Now, what places cannot be considered public? I really have no f—cking idea. I really do not believe that the government wants the people to smoke inside their houses.
We could have shown some sympathy if the smokers would find smokers lounges at public places. Till date, I have seen just two such lounges in malls in the Delhi NCR region. The mall near my place in Chandigarh had one too.
The basic question remains. Where can smokers smoke legally and without bothering other people?
Driving has become a pain
Courtesy the Government
India has bad roads. Except for the few national highways, most of the roads we have in India are in real bad shape.
They are full of potholes and they are full of illegal speed breakers. Illegal because the law has defined certain guidelines for making speed breakers and I really doubt if even 10% of the breakers out there meet those rules.
Then the government supplies us with trashy adulterated fuel. And then they expect us to drive at speeds below 60KMPH. And then they expect us to not have tinted windows even in this scorching heat. And then they expect us to not hear music at volume above certain levels which I still cannot understand.
The only two sane laws which make sense to me are banning of smoking and talking on the mobile phone while driving. Now… one of these two points gives me more reasons to rant.
People in Delhi still talk on the mobile smoking cigs
I spent some time driving in Delhi today. I had read in the newspapers that the traffic cops were going to enforce the recently introduced traffic rules today. Saw no barriers checking for over speeding. Saw people smoking while driving. Saw people talking on their mobiles while driving.
Nothing changed. I was perhaps the only idiot following all the traffic rules!