I think today there are many less smokers than years ago, plus the price for cigs are so high that if you are a pack a day smoker, that can add up to lots of money. I was in a card store the other day buying birthday cards and behind the counter they have the cigarettes. The price for a pack here in NYC is $18.50/pack, $185 for a carton! Totally insane, I don't know how anyone who isn't very weathy can afford it, if they smoke a lot. I don't know how they can enforce that law in the UK for someone who is older. Will they ask every person even senior citizens for ID?
I was driving with my mom the other day, we were going food shopping and usually when we go places together, I drive but going there she likes to listen to her 1940s music and coming back I listen to my more modern stuff. Anyway, the 40s channel played a song called "Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! (That Cigarette)". That song wouldn't work today for sure. My mom turned 100 last week and "Knock Wood" she is doing very well for a person of her age and she still smokes! The doctor told her not to give it up now because the withdrawal would be extremely difficult for her. My husband and I made her a big party in a nice restaurant in a place on the Brooklyn waterfront under the Williamsburg Bridge overlooking the Manhattan skyline. We all had an amazing time!
