Hey Sir! Two's up on that?

Hands up who thinks the smoking ban is a load of crap? Anybody? Well fine. You're in the majority it would seem, much to the indignation of smokers everywhere. Summer's coming, so we don't mind the ban quite so much - nothing says 'pleasantly wasted summers afternoons' like a nice G+T and a bit of cancer in the garden of a local pub. Cigarettes belong there, it's just so right.

But oddly enough, stridently pro-death-wish that we are, there has to be a line drawn somewhere. Today Glitter is drawing the line at teachers sparking up in class. Surely even the most vehement lung-poisoning nihilists couldn't put forward an argument for this.

It would seem that smoking in class is 'educational', according to the Rudolf Steiner school, who believe that children should 'find out for themselves.' Call us old fashioned, but we're pretty sure that 'finding out by yourself' is not quite the same as 'being told to do it by a teacher,' and it's a mathematical certainty that there'd have been no groping in the locker rooms or stabbing under the desks at Glitter High if the headmaster had made it compulsory.

But of course, as the poor teacher himself seems desperate to explain, that is sort of the point. If a boring authority figure tells you to do something, you're very unlikely to do it. Which makes us think that perhaps instead of banning smoking outright, pubs should simply start hiring the balding, middle-class, holier-than-thou ~~twats~~ types who preach against smoking, and have them start encouraging it.

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Written by Nikki on 26 Apr 2008 12:05 PM. Permalink