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Friends of Robert Winborough have slowing begun withdrawing him from social invite lists, fed up that the self-confessed reformed smoker has been punishing there hard-earned packs of ciggies.
Winborough, 25, has been arriving at social gatherings armed only with his unique orange Bic lighter, quickly pulling up anyone who could potentially put it in their pocket by mistake.
There was a time when Winfield appeared to get through a night relatively unnoticed, working the room and being careful not to bum two smokes from the same person less than an hour apart. But with the rapid decline in smoking and rise in cigarette prices, Roberts options have dwindled, leaving those who still smoke wanting to drag him out the door by his collar and kick him down the stairs.
“he’s deadset fucking taking the piss” said his old school mate JP.
“he doesn’t even ask anymore. he just takes them” before another victim, Pete Champion chimed in “unless you’ve got rollies. he asks you to roll them for him. it’s killing me”.
