Living A simple green Life: Should smokers get free fags on the nhs. After all if i was hooked on heroine. I would get it or methadone free. (An illegal drug.) Therefore no tax paid from heroine addicts. Yet as a smoker i have paid £1,000's in tax. A fairer society for all

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Welcome to my wee blog.My name is Andy ( The Dafthermit ) . For the last 20 odd years i have ben trying to get back to a simpler way of life and finally in my old bus up here in the Scottish mountains i am finally getting there. My time now is spent taking pictures of the highlands ,making films to show the world the beauty all around and writing something that has surprised me having had a few of my stories published , Having picked up a camera and laptop in 2008 i have really enjoyeed the journey the camera has taken me on again having had a couple of pictures in national magazines, last year three of ,my films where shown at the Loch Ness film festival. anyway i hope you enjoy your visit to my wee blog

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Andy

Tuesday, 17 January 2012

Should smokers get free fags on the nhs. After all if i was hooked on heroine. I would get it or methadone free. (An illegal drug.) Therefore no tax paid from heroine addicts. Yet as a smoker i have paid £1,000's in tax. A fairer society for all

Should smokers get free fags on the nhs. After all if i was hooked on
heroine. I would get it or methadone free. (An illegal drug.)
Therefore no tax paid from heroine addicts. Yet as a smoker i have
paid £1,000's in tax. A fairer society for all

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2 comments:

Trevor David Betts BA (Hons.)17 January 2012 17:38
Now has a life-long non-smoker I will try and comment on this in objective manner. Yes smokers do pay a great deal in taxes, after all the price of a packet of fags always goes up in price at virtually every budget. Yet there is a far higher bill for the NHS to treat smokers with potential life threatening diseases (cancer to name one). But there are just as many (perhaps more instances of the NHS having to spend billions on treating those who drink too much). I have no doubt that the rise in public house closures in recent years is due, in part to: cheap supermarket booze and the smoking ban. Now, I think the best way to deal with this is to bring back the snug and smoking rooms in pubs. Also if you are addicted to cigs, then stop smoking them because they contain a cocktail of various chemicals including cynide. If you have to smoke change to hand rolling your own.
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Dafthermit4 February 2012 10:13
many thanks for that Trevor aye gave up fags many years ago for rolling baccy cheaper and as you say nae added chemicals to keep it lit . love and light
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Andy the Daft Hermit lives 45 minutes outside Inverness with his wife Mel in an old bus parked in a layby. This current home of theirs is the longest they have ever stayed in one spot. “I’ve been travelling now 25 years,” said Andy Lowe. “Mel’s been travelling 15. One of the reasons we’ve come and stayed up here is because of Mel’s health. I wanted to bring her to the mountains for fresh air and clean water and just a slower pace of life.” Mel has had breast cancer twice, skin cancer once, and for three years believed she had bone cancer after being wrongly diagnosed. Andy’s belief in the restorative powers of the north made them pack up ‘The Black Bus’ that they live in and cross the border into Scotland. New Highland home for hermit couple Andy and Mel “I think we both believe in trying to get to a more simple way of life,” said Andy, “but it’s strange for us because we are sort of hermits, or we like to live separate, but it’s not being anti-social… it’s just the way we are that allows us to be creative.” Andy first began travelling when he left the army. Fed up with bureaucracy he packed a rucksack and left for France and has been travelling ever since. By investing any money the couple have earned into solar panels and wind generators they now live a self-sustaining existence, without electric bills, and collect rain water “straight from Heaven”. “It’s not easy,” said Mel. “There might be time when there might not be enough facilities around, but you always find a way, you know?” Rather than rejecting technology, Andy blogs about his travels online and collaborates with artists from around the world via his ‘Scratchy Heid Film Studio’, which he runs from a static trailer next to the couple’s bus. He explained his philosophy: “My belief is that if you can go through life and you drop dead and you’ve got a balance there that slightly outweighs the good than the bad, you’ve done alright. “Yesterday, with what Mel’s been through with the cancer and all that, I had a woman on one of my sites there that thanked me for the writing, for the positive things, and to me that’s worth everything. You can keep your millions, we’re not interested. That is what we do.” To check out Andy’s artwork and video projects check out his website. MORE FROM THE NORTH