Once again the South African government has astounded me with how it chooses to spend its time (I mean other than misappropriating tax payers funds). First it was the time spent deciding to ban cigarette advertising. Now this was a quickie, cause pretty much the rest of the world had done it, but then they had to take it that critical amount further They skipped the time which should have been spent fixing things like crime, HIV, poverty, education and on and on (by now I’ve recited this list so many times you should know it by heart!). No these things are far less important than spending months passing a smoking bill that makes sure it’s virtually IMPOSSIBLE to smoke anywhere other than in your toilet with a can of deo that you need to spray every ten seconds so the Hawks don’t bash down your door and shoot you!

So now they are at it again. They have chosen once more to pretend the above list of ‘country destroying problems’ doesn’t exist and they have moved on to alcohol (because of course JZ is massively against it – I mean he had a man arrested for spilling his drink near our dear Pres!)

Let us for a moment forget the alcohol ban and the time it’s taken our proactive government to push this one through. Let us go back a little first . . .

About ten years ago the first countries started banning the marketing and advertising of cigarettes (there went those magnificent Styvie ads I used to drool over at the cinema). Cigarette companies, of course, panicked at first until they realized they now had billions of spare marketing dollars lying around. This led to underground parties, concerts, subliminal advertising and any other kind of marketing that wasn’t considered overt. This went on until the cigarette empires realized something amazing . . . NO ONE STOPPED SMOKING!!!

They now had billions of extra profit every to spend on R&D and packaging because global governments had virtually forced them into it and the best news at all, sales kept growing! In fact virtually no where around the world has smoking declined because of the ban on advertising.

Perfect example of advertising Dollar going into new product development!

So instead of trying to stop the abuse of alcohol by perhaps EDUCATION (apparently we are against that in any form – just check the 100s of kids bussed in for Julius Malema’s trial instead of being in class). No we decide to spend more time pushing a bill through parliament that outlaws the advertising of alcohol.

Everyone say it with me now, WTF??

Good idea that girl in the uniform and all her friends should rather be here than LEARNING!

Now I’m no Nostradamus but I’m pretty sure I’ll be able to predict this one – PEOPLE WILL STILL DRINK!

They will drink as much if not more than before. Why? Very simply cause drinking and smoking are fun, they’re ‘cool’ and every single kid in the world tries it at one point or another. So until you find a solution for that people, you can ban whatever the hell you like and it’s not going to stop anyone!

As for the South African government pissing away time and money with this idiotic shit, I have a message for you.

FOCUS ON THE IMPORTANT STUFF AND STOP WASTING EVERYONES TIME AND MONEY!

Faithfully