Smoking Moss

Non-smoking day was this week, and some media outlets were criticising Kate Moss because she was smoking on the cat walk on this so called day of all days to kick the habit. For a start, if non smoking day is a day to encourage someone to stop then it won’t help as nobody knows it is non-smoking day until they hear it on the radio or read it in the paper that very day. Kate Moss had a fag, so what.
But wait, isn’t she a role model that children look up to for inspiration? No, she’s a model, not the guiding light for the nations future. A model. She wears clothes for a living and gets photographed. Also it was the fashion designers idea to have her smoking on the catwalk, maybe just maybe because it is non-smoking day and knowing full well the fuss it will cause. And the next day, guess what? Pictures of Kate Moss were in the papers with the designers clothes on.
The same day the government say that tobacco and tobacco products will have to be sold under the counter in supermarkets next year and by 2015 in all shops. The point being? To stop smoking. Yeah because people are going to go to the corner shop to buy cigarettes and forget they want them when they can’t see them. “I’m sure that I came in here for something? No can’t remember. Just a pack of chewing gum please mate.”