 The Cartoonist and the mysterious Case of the Missing Cigarettes, or: The healthiest cigarettes in the World. It happened on the way to the station. I had some urgent business in London to attend to and went to the nearest tube station. A bit further up the road is a newsagent, and as I was in the desperate need of some cigarettes, I made the quick decision to buy some. A pack of cigarettes is now £4.70 here in the UK, so it was not an easy decision to be made.I got a pack and luckily opened them just outside the shop. I opened up the cellophane, removed the alu-paper and ---
No cigarettes inside. Just some crumpled up tissue paper. Nothing else. My eyes were popping out of my head, my hands trembling. I was in cold sweat, staring at a box filled with tissue paper.
Back into the shop I went: "Dear shopkeeper, this must be the most expensive box of tissues I've ever bought. Now do you have a similar box with actually cigarettes inside?"
The shopkeeper couldn't believe it either. He took another pack out of the shelf behind him, unwrapped the cellophane, opened the pack, removed the alu-paper and withdrew some more tissue paper from the inside.
Same here.
Well, the third pack finally contained some actual cigarettes. I was relieved. And wondered all the way down to London where this particular shopkeeper might get his cigarettes from.
And as Rocky said: It's healthy. The first cigarettes you can blow your nose with!
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