tobacconists in France are cashing in on ladies who want a new set of gold dentures, French women have found a way of drawing a line under an unwanted husband, they are selling their wedding rings to be melted down and turned into dentures and using the money to buy cigarettes and wine, or sweets for their children, with French households hoarding 5,000 tonnes of gold — more than any other country, according to Roland Martin, the managing director of Valeurs Précieuses et Or, the company behind the initiative — a cultural change is under way,
a total of 1,500 cigarette sellers have joined the scheme and a further 500 are expected to follow this year, Jean-Luc Renaud, the general secretary of the French Federation of Tobacconists, who has a shop in Agen, southwest France, said that he needed “new ways of making money” because the number of cigarettes sold in France last year was 53.6 billion — down from 97.1 billion in 1991, gold was a solution, it earns him €300 to €500 a month and “since all the tools are provided by the company there was no investment at all. It’s all profit” I wonder if it will catch on in the UK? I seem to remember reading some where, that we in the UK have the worst teeth in Europe, so who knows!
Monday, 25 May 2009
Gummies Sell Their Gold!
it is one of those "you could not make it up" stories,
tobacconists in France are cashing in on ladies who want a new set of gold dentures, French women have found a way of drawing a line under an unwanted husband, they are selling their wedding rings to be melted down and turned into dentures and using the money to buy cigarettes and wine, or sweets for their children, with French households hoarding 5,000 tonnes of gold — more than any other country, according to Roland Martin, the managing director of Valeurs Précieuses et Or, the company behind the initiative — a cultural change is under way,
a total of 1,500 cigarette sellers have joined the scheme and a further 500 are expected to follow this year, Jean-Luc Renaud, the general secretary of the French Federation of Tobacconists, who has a shop in Agen, southwest France, said that he needed “new ways of making money” because the number of cigarettes sold in France last year was 53.6 billion — down from 97.1 billion in 1991, gold was a solution, it earns him €300 to €500 a month and “since all the tools are provided by the company there was no investment at all. It’s all profit” I wonder if it will catch on in the UK? I seem to remember reading some where, that we in the UK have the worst teeth in Europe, so who knows!
tobacconists in France are cashing in on ladies who want a new set of gold dentures, French women have found a way of drawing a line under an unwanted husband, they are selling their wedding rings to be melted down and turned into dentures and using the money to buy cigarettes and wine, or sweets for their children, with French households hoarding 5,000 tonnes of gold — more than any other country, according to Roland Martin, the managing director of Valeurs Précieuses et Or, the company behind the initiative — a cultural change is under way,
a total of 1,500 cigarette sellers have joined the scheme and a further 500 are expected to follow this year, Jean-Luc Renaud, the general secretary of the French Federation of Tobacconists, who has a shop in Agen, southwest France, said that he needed “new ways of making money” because the number of cigarettes sold in France last year was 53.6 billion — down from 97.1 billion in 1991, gold was a solution, it earns him €300 to €500 a month and “since all the tools are provided by the company there was no investment at all. It’s all profit” I wonder if it will catch on in the UK? I seem to remember reading some where, that we in the UK have the worst teeth in Europe, so who knows!
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