A salient classic dub / roots tune that first surfaced in 1982, 'Joker Smoker' lies among singer Triston Palmer's earliest and most formative tunes, making for the star cut on his eponymous album from 1982. 'Joker Smoker' muses on the habit of fair-weather smoking from a heavyweight puffer's perspective, and casts scorn on those dopey dilettantes who dabble yet don't devote. In Palmer's own lyrical words: "To give away, I don't feel, no way / But everyday you a come with the sensi / Mi a beg you a spliff, sir / Mi a beg you a cigarette, sir /Mi a borrow your lighter / 'Cause dem are joker smoker!" Seemingly innocuous, the song nonetheless reveals the libidinal reality of smoking from an on-the-ground POV, one heavily bound up in ideas of excess, machismo, economy and the keeping up of airs (whether tinged with that sweet sensi pong or not). And here comes a full forty-years-on reissue of the original riddim, including its dub version and censorious acapella.