[Tom]

Does he have any right to say how the smokers can ration them?

[hennessy]

If the smokers paid for them, no
but if given away free to HM to anyone who wants them, yes.
Bea wanted to trade tobacco for frosties, why shouldn't Marcus?

[cassieparis]

power mad fecker

[WOMBAI]

Originally posted by Tom
Does he have any right to say how the smokers can ration them?

No - he doesn't have any rights! Why would he!

Who made him head honcho!!

The cigarettes were meant for the smokers, why would cigarettes be given to non-smokers. That whole argument is ridiculous!! BB should not have to put names on the packs - they are divided up amongst the smokers!!

Marcus fans will twist anything, anyway to justify his actions!

Quite hilarious really!!

[Bombardier]

Lots of non-smokers have brought cigarettes into the house in the past as gifts/bargaining tools.

There is nothing wrong with bargaining over cigarettes or alcohol, they're currency in the house.

[BigBrotherfan4ever]

Absolutely not, i how dare he try & control how much people do or dont smoke there all adults in the house, the guy is one big control freak.

[BigBrotherfan4ever]

Originally posted by COMMONSENSE
[Marcus fans will twist anything, anyway to justify his actions!

Quite hilarious really!!

Once again i totally agree with you on this one COMMONSENSE

[charliegimbert]

hard to say. but on the other hand, he will get punished all the time, and lisa & david can do anything they want. so im kinda OK with that

[charliegimbert]

Originally posted by COMMONSENSE


Marcus fans will twist anything, anyway to justify his actions!

just like Marcus haters, turning everything against him

[GypsyGoth]

Nope, he gambled on taking them.

He knows how precious they are to the smokers.

Ironically it seems that it was the pack allocated to Freddy that he took.

So if he had just asked Freddy, he probably would have said sure take them.

Marcus mentioned he wanted to present them to Bea as a gift.

He made a mistake.

However there is no rule that says the smokes given at parties are just for smokers.

They could be divided amongst everyone equally.

[BBmassive]

No right whatsoever ,he is a THIEF

[Beastie]

yes! he did it in goodness of the house!!

[Daffodil]

He wasn't right because I think he was going to use them on a fag for favours basis. ie 'Sit on my knee and i'll give you a cigarette' sort of thing

[Kazanne]

Who cares marcus is so much fun along with freddie and siavash,What's a packet of fags.LOL

[Ramsay]

Hes right..hes always right...

[Ghostinthehouse]

Marcus had just as much right to the fags as anyone else in the house. It doesn't matter what he did, or planned to do with them. No one owned the fags. Like no one owned the cake served at the tea either!!!! The fags were put on the table for everyone.

[terryecosse]

Originally posted by Bombardier
Lots of non-smokers have brought cigarettes into the house in the past as gifts/bargaining tools.

There is nothing wrong with bargaining over cigarettes or alcohol, they're currency in the house.

Exactly.

He showed great initiative procuring the ciggies.

Having to put up with Dogface,Rodders,Charlie and Lisa he might eventually need them to calm his nerves.

[Brad.]

Originally posted by kerplunk124
Hes right..hes always right...

Precisely

[gothic_gangsta]

he was wrong he was going to give them to bea as a gift.............IF HE wanted to buy bea a gift he should of bought some fags with his money

[Captain.Remy]

I'm a smoker and I think I'd have smashed the hell out of him. That was stupid, but then he's my 2nd fave. Still is inappropriate.

[FreddieLovesMarcus]

As long as gollum doesn't get any he can do what he bloody well wants.

[Shasown]

Totally in the wrong, BB should run a mock trial and let the housemates judge him, they should appoint Lisa(pmsl) as prosecution, Bea as Defence and Rodrigo as the judge, the rest of the housemates should be the jury.

If he is found guilty they should cut off one of his pony tail and shave his sideburns. If he steals again its his right hand next.

[WOMBAI]

Originally posted by Daffodil
He wasn't right because I think he was going to use them on a fag for favours basis. ie 'Sit on my knee and i'll give you a cigarette' sort of thing

Not a nice thought at all!!

[MissKittyFantastico]

In hindsight I think Marcus probably wishes he'd left the bloody cigarettes well alone.

His explanation was that he asked if everyone had all the fags they wanted, and they did, and there was a spare pack so he decided to keep them himself, so that if and when people ran out (as they seem to every week) he would then be able to say 'here you go' and distribute the fags back out again.

He then said he'd decided to not do that and give the fags to Bea, because she would dish them out anyway, and also because she had given a lot of tobacco out to people when they had run out last week, he wanted to give her a treat.

I do actually think he did it in good faith, not thinking a big deal would be made of it, after all HE didn't make a big deal when Kris and Charlie went into HIS drawer and STOLE his cans of beer and cider. They were HIS, not anyone elses, the cigarettes didn't actually belong to ANY one person.

I think he shouldn't have bothered and left the things well alone, I've never seen such a fuss made over one pack of fags in my life, and I'm speaking as a smoker!

[Novo]

Yes he is always right