Put that in yer pipe…

Calabash-for-influence?

Amid the blah de blah over EU health commissioner John Dalli’s resignation and a cash-for-influence probe over tobacco legislation, has no-one thought to look further into the links between the European Commission and Big Tobacco?

A trawl through them internets for names of commissioners and ‘tobacco’ comes up with the following company “Ashton Pipes & Cigars”

We should be told.

Though it’d be a sad irony for Cathy Ashton, who’s had such a rough ride of it in the media (not least on these hallowed pixels) to be marketing a contemplative ‘pleasurably palatable’ blend called ‘Smooth Sailing’.

And the ‘Ashton Cabinet Selection’ is a humidor that’s been restocked a few times over…

B *cough* M