For many years the donkeys were an attraction on Blackpool pleasure beach. Many have come and gone, generations have watched their offspring plodding along, their little faces a picture of bliss. No doubt many a parent will have stood watching whilst enjoying a relaxing cigarette – or two – as their little ones bobbed along the beach.

Well that may have been alright then, but now it seems that those enjoyable cigarettes need to be cut down on as Blackpool doctors issue severe ‘gale warnings’; of course it could only be about cigarettes!

Smoking will kill 600 at every Blackpool surgery

screams the headline as yet another ‘local rag’ tries to jump aboard the healthists bandwagon. I have another headline for you:

Not Smoking will kill 600 at every Blackpool sugery

The article claims that 33% of the resorts patrons smoke, which leaves 67% as non-smokers so there should actually be more of them dying than smokers! Or, are the resorts doctor’s heads so full of donkey pooh that they can’t see anything but sucking up to aligning themselves to the anti-smoking jihad? Dr Arif Rajpura, an ex-smoker, has declared that getting more people to quit is his top priority – more bullying then!

No doubt many of Blackpool’s donkey headed doctors will be prescribing chantix, champix or varencline to their small band of quitters in an attempt to add one more to the total of three that have spent 4 years giving up, but should they be doing so? Is the cause so great a thing that even killing people with this drug can be counted as a victory because they have stopped smoking-eternally!

Pfizer, who already have almost 2,000 law suits stacked up against them in America due to the nefarious effects of Chantix, have now come a cropper in France as ”the drug will be pulled from the government formulary of meds eligible for reimbursement because of ongoing controversy about its potential side effects,” Health Minister Xavier Bertrand said.

Oh, dear me Mr Pfizer, it seems your wonder drug, far from being remedial is actually the brother of the good old cure-all pill, potassium cyanide! Having finally cottoned onto the happenings across the ‘pond’ Monsieur Bertrand has deemed action to be prudent-funny how the Yanks haven’t! It’s easy to see why it is still freely available in America (sadly here as well) as the drug” contributed $755 million in worldwide sales to Pfizer’s bottom line last year, up from $700 million the year before”. Can you imagine the number of prescriptions that lot would take?

Closer to home, Scotland actually, Patricia McLinden is after Pfizer as well as, although approved by the Scottish Medicines Consortium in January 2007, her husband died after taking this lethal drug in an attempt to kill of his yearning for a fag. Well, anti-smoking zealots, he can yearn no more! You should be proud of yourselves-another cure all! As Belinda rightly points out:

It’s odd that stories of sudden and traumatic death, and distressing behaviour, are considered to be a price worth paying for a lower smoking rate.

Obviously the French Government has more of a conscience than ours, obviously they value the lives of their citizens whereas it can now only be assumed that our coagulation government are so far up Arnott & Dockrells arses and so fearful of the health lobby’s backlash that they are quite prepared to allow more deaths/suicides in the name of denormalisation. What a cruel and twisted crock of shit country we do live in! The donkeys are lucky, they are oblivious to all the trauma’s yet to be faced by their young passengers!

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