Smoking video no ifs and butts
The United Pro-choice Smokers Rights newsletter, to give it its full title, shows a picture of US soldiers enjoying a cigarette in Saddam Hussein's palace as an example of the relaxing pleasures of tobacco. Now it looks as though it will be a question of fighting on the beaches of California, with or without that sword of justice. The latest move to extend the state prohibitions on smoking is aimed at the shorelines and all those sandy spots where people are still allowed to smoke. Los Angeles city councillors Jack Weiss and Cindy Miscikowski are proposing that the beaches in the LA area should become a smoke-free zone. Already a small town further down the coast has introduced such a ban so the chances are that Venice beach, the most popular seaside space for the city, will eventually follow suit.


No ifs or butts - Liverpool Hospital's total no smoking ban
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No ifs or butts: Cigarette rubbish is littering Singapore's coastline - CNA
Allen Carr, probably the most famous anti-smoking guru of our times, has a problem. He really wants to be loved for the way he has helped many thousands of people stub out their last cigarette, but he does not come across as being particularly likable. Through his autobiography, I formed the impression of him as an arrogant individual, easily roused to bad temper, overly impressed by money, with a limited understanding of people, especially those close to him. The book takes us back to his childhood in Putney, south London, his grammar-school days and his accountancy career before he saw the light on 15 July and embarked on his mission to cure the world of smoking. This is a description of his first wife, Ellen, who suffered depression and anxiety during her four pregnancies. Isn't most depression? His lack of sympathy is explained later: 'I wanted home to be a refuge from the tensions and the worries of work, somewhere with a cheerful and relaxed atmosphere.



No ifs or butts: Cigarette rubbish is littering Singapore's coastline
Not long ago, dining out, going for a drink, working in an office, riding an airplane or intercity bus, and going to a movie meant being subjected to second-hand smoke. Cigarette smoking was a fact of life, and smokers were everywhere—indoors and out. Through a combination of public education and government regulation, including taxation, profound societal change took place over a relatively short time. In , half of Canadians smoked. By , that had dropped to about

Pfizer sent out a press release this morning touting the findings of a company-sponsored European survey of ex-smokers. The study found that 84 percent of the respondents in France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the UK who had consulted with a doctor or some other healthcare professional about quitting thought it was helpful. However, only 13 percent of the nearly 1, participants had talked to a doc or someone else in the medical field.