British sailor Faye Turney has a smoke in Iranian custody.

She is smoking a FAG.

http://www.answers.com/topic/cigarette#wp-_note-0

"A cigarette (colloquially known in British English as a FAG[1]) is a product manufactured out of cured and finely cut tobacco leaves, which are rolled or stuffed into a paper-wrapped cylinder"

they claim the female was also pregnent, and how dare the british send a prego limey into combat.

this world is dead, whatever happened here i think we missed it.

Gotta love the response. Iran kidnaps British sailors and holds them hostage, and someone's concerned about the fact that the captive's statement(no doubt coerced, and at least shown in violation of the Geneva Convention) sends the wrong message about smoking.

What color is the sky in their world?

Forget about them, I want to know who kidnapped me and took me to BIZZARRO WORLD without my knowing it!

Whatever became of "name, rank and serial #". First, these so-called "marines" should have emptied their weapons into the Iranians and if any remained alive, they should have kept their mouths shut. What a bunch of undisciplined cowards. After succumbing to the enemy's lies, they smile, shake hands with the tyrant and accept their door prizes. The Brits really blew this one. And worse still, this was a slap in the face of all those brave Brit soldiers from this war and many past ones who've given their lives to fight scum.

Next time, not-so-Great-anymore Britain, obliterate anyone who comes within 100 yards of your naval vessels with obvious aggressive intent -- save you all a whole bunch of trouble.

If you're worried about "international reaction and condemnation," weigh down the bodies, punch a hole in the keel of their vessel, and "disappear" the sons-of-bitches forever.

Hewitt's supposed comment about smoking being the most important part of an international crisis isn't all that unique in the crazy world of the Antismokers. Back when Richard Reed (The Shoe Bomber) was stopped from blowing up an airplane, he bit the stewardess who'd leaped on him.

The courageous stewardess was shown getting out of the back of an emergency vehicle at a hospital and the news cams zoomed in on her brave demeanor as she joked with emergency personnel on the tarmac... until she made the fatal mistake of reaching in her purse to pull out a smoke.

After that, EVERY major US Network I checked except MSNBC edited down the 45 seconds of joyous coverage of her bravery to a 10 or 15 second snippet. Saving a few hundred lives doesn't mean much compared to the crime of smoking evidently.

And just last week the University of Winnipeg confronted the crisis brought on by fear that its smoking students would get mugged, raped, and killed while going off-campus to smoke because of their ban. The problem that reared its ugly head was the threat presented to the lives of campus security officers who might be near those deadly smoking students while warding off gun-toting muggers and drug-dealers.

Smoking bans are built upon lies and pushed by insanity. The inmates have rushed out of the asylum and are dancing wildly in the daisy fields, and the money pumped into their TV ads has convinced too many of us to dance with them.

Michael J. McFadden
Author of "Dissecting Antismokers' Brains"
http://pasan.TheTruthIsALie.com