tobacco

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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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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It’s all done with Smoke and Errors……

November 26, 2010

Being frightened of Aids is so last year – the great and the good now climb over each other in the rush to clasp Aids carriers to their bosom, nothing to be frightened of there children. Osama Bin Laden? Mmmn, Can still raise a frisson of fear in the terminally neurotic, but all under control. [...]

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Erewash eyewash.

September 7, 2010

Ms Raccoon is still swishing her tail angrily in the direction of Sandwell Council, and pawing the ground impatiently at the sheer length of time it is taking to transfer Sheila Martin’s ‘file’ from the warden’s department of Sandwell Council to the Legal Services Department in the same building – who are responsible for deciding [...]

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Cyclical Smoke Rings.

September 4, 2010

I have been reading a long out-of-print (1914) book by George Apperson on the history of smoking. I had not appreciated before how cyclical was the promotion and suppression of smoking. Apperson’s book is not the ‘History of Tobacco’ which has been frequently visited by authors, but the history of the fluctuations of fashion in [...]

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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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