smoking

Blowing Smoke Up your Pet….

April 27, 2011
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PET-owners who smoke in the North East are being warned how tobacco smoke could leave their feathered or furry friends fighting for health. Noooo, not little Tiddles? “Thousands of dogs, cats and birds in the region are at risk from illnesses like cancer and asthma from inhaling their owners’ smoke, warns leading veterinary charity PDSA [...]

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The Capacity to Annoy.

April 21, 2011
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I have always loathed caravans. Could anything foul up the traffic flow more efficiently than a trundling three piece suite and double bed on wheels, with integral microwave and satellite tv aerial; a mobile council house heading at a snail’s pace for the nearest coast? Oh, but yes it could. An even slower version. Surprisingly, [...]

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Hookahs & H&S

February 22, 2011

A 19 yr old was fined £2,000 for breaking Health & Safety laws. For smoking a hookah next to gas cylinders at his workplace. He also suffered burns and had to pay £2000 costs. The company had already received general safety advice but because Mohammed Wasim Natha of Blackburn ignored the advice and smoked and [...]

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What is ‘normal’?

January 31, 2011

I have been stirred into print this morning by a new ‘mental affliction’ discovered in America – where else. I am not, it would appear ‘normal’. I suffer from a defect in the brain. A ‘fault’. A deviation from the ‘norm’. Since it is something that it is hoped I can be ‘helped’ with, I [...]

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Eat, Drink and be Merry.

December 28, 2010

For Armageddon is just around the corner. Sorry to be so dramatic, for I did intend to write something cheerful on the first post after Christmas. By my reckoning, January 12th should be our final day on this earth – it is not global warming that we should be concerned with, nor even global cooking [...]

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Sexual Politics | Storm in a C cup.

November 19, 2010

The massed nipples at Mumsnet are rigid with indignation, Twitoris ablaze with passion. The ‘beyondretrograde’ (Oh the irony!) blog has thrown up a genuine old fashioned feminist scandal. A woman’s nipple was shown in public – quelle horreur! A generation of women who think nothing of walking round in the depth of winter with their [...]

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The Righteous target the Internet.

August 26, 2010

Over at Righteous Central, aka the British Medical Journal’s sidekick ‘Tobacco Control’, they are beside themselves with excitement. They have discovered a new ‘policy vacuum’. This isn’t a device for hovering up dubious statements from Public Health Officials detailing the slow and lingering death suffered by a photogenic six year old four years after she [...]

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