Finance Companies Move In to Cigarette Pack Leasing

A number of financial institutions have begun preparing a new leasing product aimed at smokers who are unable to afford the buying a whole pack following the Government’s restriction on selling individual cigarettes.

One smoker said, “They have increased the price of cigarettes to such an extent that now have to share one cigarette with someone else. By making it impossible to buy single ciggies, we will have to get a loan to fund our habit. I am glad that I can now take out a lease to help me continue smoking. That’s much less stressful than giving up cigarettes because life is too stressful to manage without smoking.”

A spokesman for one leasing company said, “Through aggressive advertising and marketing tactics we have managed to get people to take out loans that they can’t afford. So one of the coping mechanisms they used to get over the stress of the debt was smoking. As a result of the Government’s new proposal we can now offer our customers the opportunity to lower their stress by taking out a cigarette pack lease and reduce their stress. When they see the repayment on that lease they can then turn to drinking.”