WCE's Anti-Litter Campaign Targets Smokers

The WCE's Minister for Infrastructure and Flora,
Mrs Mona Beanland, says it's time for harsh new measures
to be implemented to maintain the Expatdom's pristine
environment.

She said that smokers and their butts are "getting worse
as each day passes. Those cigarette vending-machines in Gambays
are probably the root-cause of the problem".

"Every time I go to Gambays, all I see outside are butts, butts,
and more butts!. Mountainous piles of butts. And inside the bar,
why, the floor is literally carpeted in discarded butts", she fumed.

Minister Beanland said that an increased tax on cigarettes was
warranted.

At Gambays, Hans Klingner, who chain-smokes up to sixty cigarettes
every day, said that he was strongly-opposed to such "Draconian
measures", and that the Minister's proposed new regulations were
nonsensical.

"We have twelve cigarette vending-machines here in Gambays, and we
are already paying too much tax on every pack we purchase here", he
said.

"That means that every cigarette I smoke buys another bar of soap in the
Expatdom's public WCs, or maybe a new pencil for one of our schoolkids".

Hans said that "I therefore consider it my patriotic duty to smoke more!".