Nobody is forcing anybody to smoke, but the government is forcing us to break the law, and that makes me sick. Time for the coke snorting Toorak chicks to leave the rest of us in peace. I have spent my life obeying some of the most unjust and ridiculous regulations anywhere in the world. I have grown accustomed to being punished for simply existing. I have learned to live with a world where I am damned if I do and damned if I don't. When I go out of my way to do the right thing, and still get slammed by an arrogant and careless bureaucrat for simply showing up and trying to do the right thing. In a place where the most productive, hardest working and dedicated people are taken for granted... expected to prop up the failing system, whilst smiling along... In a place where a joke is just about enough to get you fired, closed-down and ruined... In a place where just about everything fun is a sin against modern Australia... A place ashamed of old Australia, and hell bent on cancelling just about every remnant of what made it great. Here, in this place it is the simple pleasures that help us through the day. And it is those very simple pleasures that the establishment and their cheer squad of Karens want to pretend they can remove. But they can’t stop us. Because the human spirit is louder than the whiny, whingy voice of the Teal Karens, and the diversity hires in the Labor Party. Apparently the mums of Vaucluse don’t like the smell of illegal vapes wafting into the vents of their Porshe Cayennes, Range Rovers and BMW X5s. And seeing as though they are the only people that matter, the rest of us have to buy under the counter nicotine. We are forced to prop up crime. The criminals in government are struggling to beat the criminals on the street. As is always the case with stupid law. It’s not like it hasn’t happened before. Prohibition does not work. Plain packaging and the banning of vapes are stupid policies. Jacking up taxes on what should be a cheap product is stupid policy. It has predictably failed miserably, and almost everyone standing in the designated smoking area is a victim of both the government and the crime networks. The only solution now is to scrap plain packaging, scrap the excises and stop pretending the government can win the war they started on the people who like a smoke. It’s time this nonsense ended. If smokers cared for the views of the puritans, they would have quit by now. If plain packaging and taxes were going to work, it would have worked by now. If Australia really was a nation of gym going, celery juice drinkers, jogging to yoga class then illegal tobacco and vapes would not exist. Let us smoke in peace. Because we don’t want to break the law, we just want these laws broken. I just want Australia back.