Britain’s 28-Billion Cigarette Habit: Proof That Common Sense Has Left the Chat

Lighting up despite cancer warnings, autopsy-packaging, and wallet-busting prices? Welcome to the UK, where adults proudly reject logic one puff at a time!

Last Tuesday, I watched a man outside the post office light a cigarette, cough so violently he looked like he was about to eject a lung, then light another one with the still-smouldering stump of the first. I assumed it was a street performance about mortality. But no; just Tuesday in Britain.

I’ve previously spoken to people who were smoking, politely e…