WHAT’S with this new trend of people walking around the streets and towns smoking cigs or vaping so that people have to walk through their unhealthy nicotine fog or flavoured, smelly lesser-death cloud?

Waiting for a bus – puff away! Walking in the street – puff away!

I was in town last week and Church Street was full of people walking through their own smoke.

It was like they were appearing on Stars in Their Eyes.

“Tonight, Matthew, I’m going to be someone in a puffer jacket, hood up, struggling to string together a coherent sentence that doesn’t include an f-word or ‘lad’”.

In all fairness, it’s not just young people.

There’s usually a few old dears about, struggling with five shopping bags and trying with every last ounce of strength to lift their handle-covered hand to their mouth to take that important drag that just couldn’t wait half an hour.

You even see people driving while smoking. Wow!

If you’re thinking about where to put the ash, you aren’t concentrating! How addicted are these people?

I enjoy a beer but I don’t open a bottle of lager on my way to the shop.

School kids vaping everywhere, too.

I take it they’re getting over their habit of never having smoked a damn cigarette in their lives?

Buses don’t allow vaping but they don’t enforce their policy.

In fact, they don’t advertise it at all! No stickers or posters.

No TV advert campaign.

What sort of hard-faced vermin sit blowing cack out all over folk on buses anyway? Did the lockdown create an even worse bunch of people who can’t function in a decent society?

While I’m at it, I haven’t seen a stray dog for about 30 years, so why am seeing dog poo all over the streets?

Absolute animals (not the dogs).

Don’t get me started on swearing in public, spitting, one hand down the front of your trousers, leggings that make you look like you’re in the buff, or idiots on scooters and bikes in town.

Breathe... (if there isn’t someone smoking in the vicinity)!

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