H:25000 jobs in the tobacco industry, a flourishing cigarette export business, helping our balance of trade.

25000 jobs related to tobacco newsagents,packaging,transport...

J:These figures are just guesses.

H:No,they're government st... They're facts.

J:So your statistics are facts and my facts are merely statistics?

H:I'm on your side.I'm merely giving you some arguments you'll encounter.

J:Thank you Humphrey,I'm so glad to know we'll have support such as yours.

H:It will be pointed out that the tobacco companies are great sponsors of sport.

Where would the BBC sports programmes be if cigarette companies couldn't advert..?

couldn't SPONSOR the events that they televise?

J:we're talking about 100000 deaths a year.

H:Yes,but cigarette taxes pay for a third of the cost of the National Health Service.

We're saving many more lives than we otherwise could

because of those smokers who voluntarily lay down their lives for their friends.

Smokers are national benefactors.