Menthol Health? All Smokers Matter!

I wasn’t aware that 85% of black American smokers prefer menthol cigarettes ( please note I avoid using a capital B for black, my personal protest against the discriminatory, racist imposition by the arrogant, ignorant AP….

After changing its usage rules last month to capitalize the word “Black” when used in the context of race and culture, The Associated Press on Monday said it would not do the same for “white.” The AP said white people in general have much less shared history and culture..

.https://apnews.com/article/entertainment-cultures-race-and-ethnicity-us-news-ap

.. of that capital B for blacks whilst refusing us bad, boring whites an equally capital W)

I commend those black smokers’ good taste  – menthol is pleasant to smoke – and sympathise with their imminent plight.

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For the Biden regime is set to outlaw menthol, and I am led to understand that a similar intolerant ban still exists in the EUSSR.

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EUSSR Goes Mental Over Menthol! 

When Lucky Strike Menthol disappeared from shops here in Indonesia some years ago…

Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep! 

… I spent forever traipsing around town, trying to find them, to no avail, and my attempts to find out why repeatedly hit a stone-wall.

But I suspect some Western sticky-beak meddling may have had something to do with it.

Lucky Strike Hijau – Daft Old BAT! 

Sadly, last month it felt like a gruelling action replay.

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Nowhere were Bohem cigarettes to be found.

One helpful young fellow behind a Circle K counter told me the factory was no longer producing them.

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If anyone knows of a minimart holding residual supplies, anywhere in Jabotabek, please let me know.

 

Fag-Horror in Jakarta!

No, I’m not talking about the gaystapo ululations here, which echo ever more stridently across the pages of the Jakarta Post. It’s a habit they seem unable to break, and has afflicted them for a long time.  

Grammar and ‘Gays!’ – Poor Old Jakarta Post! 

 

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But that’s not today’s big issue!

What is almost as dismaying as ‘gay rights’ wittering is the news that the price of fags is reportedly rising astronomically, as I only just read  –

… a price of Rp 50 thousand per pack…a scourge for smokers.
As the Bangka Pos reporter confirms..

some cigarette brands previously had prices ranging from Rp 10 thousand to Rp 20 thousand…

There’s even a photo to confirm these grim tidings!

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By chance I went out today to replenish my supply of spuds for the next few days’ meals. I met a local guy I knew and stopped politely to chat, whereupon he informed me that he’d just returned from a downtown mall and a pack of Marlboro there was priced at Rp.50K.

There have been rumours of such a vindictive new blow to a long persecuted minority, but I never imagined the government would be so short-sighted as to put so many jobs at risk in what is a major industry here.

For me, at least, there’s a sort of happy ending.

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Only this past weekend, I went out trawling for my fave brand Bohem Hijau, purely because they’ve been hard to find and I want a lot for when I go out of Indonesia next month.

My luck was in and I came home with nearly three hundred.

Now THAT has proved to be a worthwhile investment indeed.

 

 

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http://bangka.tribunnews.com/2016/08/20/gila-harga-rokok-sudah-segini-mahal-bikin-syok-para-perokok-nii

Perokok Yang Suka Bohem? Jangan Ke Sevel!

Wow, a Herculean struggle to get my act together after last night’s revelry downtown, but  now it’s time to – figuratively – stumble down the stairs to meet the day!

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What to write about this beautiful cloudless morning? Oh, yeah, I remember.

I used to like those 7 -Elevens, usually with some tables and chairs outside, a place you could buy a cold beer and savour it slowly in the sun.

That small pleasure is now dened us, not through any fault of the company that runs them, but due to the government’s childish prohibition of beer sales in mini-marts.

‘Creeping Shariah,’ Warns Prof. Muhammed, As Jakarta Dims! 

But I still drop in from time to time, to buy cigarettes. Sometimes I shop for smokes at Alfamart, or Indomaret, or Circle K, but just as often to Sevel, as it’s known here in Jakarta.

Not any more.

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• Every little store sells Bohem, my current fave brand, for around Rp.15,000 a pack.
• Certainly under 16K.
• So, previously, did Sevel.

But last Sunday, at their recently opened branch at Ratu Plaza, I was charged TWENTY THOUSAND!

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I should pause here to advise readers that I like to publish brief shoppers’ guides like this, partly because I’m public-spirited, but also because these little warnings of unreasonable pricing almost invariably provoke an abusive pinko stuck-up to make abusive comments, which, alas, don’t get published because the poor wee thing’s too shy to use his real name.

 

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• He’s a troubled soul, whose entirely predictable rants tend to include, in roughly equal measure, loathing for  – my blog, English teachers, foreigners who mix with non-rich Indonesians and, incredibly, sleeveless jackets.

Like I say, a right wacko!

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• Back to Ratu….
• Outraged, I thought maybe it was a fluke, a one-off excess, but no, because, with time on my hands before the party I was attending, I wandered off to another Sevel, near Senayan City, that posh shopping mall, and was displeased  – they too had upped the price.

Perhaps, it occurred to me, all minimarts had raised their prices since my last purchase the day before. A round of price-hikes? It happens.

So off I went again. I knew there was an Indomaret near Binus University, just across the street from Senayan City, so another brief toddle took me there.

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 viewed from Mcdonalds, STC, the place discussed is at the right of the photo

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The minimart is part of a gas station.

• And lo and behold, there were plenty of packs of Bohem, at under Rp.16,000 – YES!

There was, moreover, a spin-off benefit to my quest, because I found that, above the shop and the petrol station, there’s a very pleasant area for smokers, an open terrace with a nice view of the posh mall opposite!

So I settled down with my cigarettes and a paperback (always take reading material if you’re using public transport in Jakarta traffic!) and whiled away the remaining time before moving on to the party.

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I don’t get down that way too often, so am happy to share its location with readers who share my taste for open-air venues where prices compare most favourably with anything you’ll find in Senayan City!