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This Week´s Spectator
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Smoking ´martyr´ locked up
CONTROVERSIAL smoking champion Chris Carter has carried out his threat to go to jail rather than pay a £1,250 for lighting-up illegally in Bangor’s Town Hall over four years ago.
The 57 year surrendered himself to Bangor Police Station on Saturday night (28th) but has vowed not to give up on his campaign against the ban on smoking in public buildings.
As he handed himself in, Bangor’s self-styled ‘Independent Voice’ proclaimed that he was acting ‘in defence of the realm’ and brandished a copy of Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf.
He announced that he planned to digest the book behind bars to see what further ‘Fascist inspired laws’ would next be enforced upon the British people by the European Union.
As he prepared for the police to take him off to jail to serve what could be a sentence of up to 47 days, he fumed, “I am the first smoker to be imprisoned in the UK.
“I am not paying any fine for using a legal substance, tobacco, for which the government imposes an 89% tax on every packet of cigarettes.
“The sovereignty of the UK has been broken by the previous Labour government who brought in this smoking ban at the behest of the European Union.
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