Anybody who works in advertising and marketing will tell you how important packaging is. How many times have you bought a product largely because you loved the way it was packaged? More times than you’d care to think, perhaps. Nothing makes goods go off the shelves faster than cool packaging. The role of packaging in […]
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It could hardly be thought that a life-threatening addicition could be in any way fashionable, and yet it does seem that fashion and smoking are in some way linked. Awareness of the dangers of smoking really came to the forefront in the 1960’s, and films made prior to this, and even after, portrayed fashionable women […]
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People are frequently inclined to think that the ill effects of smoking only kick in in middle- and old-age. However, research has shown that smoking can dramatically affect the health of younger people too. It seems that people who are under the age of forty are five times more likely to have a heart attack […]
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In the present drive to denormalise smoking, and especially to cut down on the numbers of young people starting smoking, the actions of stars can have great significance, in terms of either promoting the idea of smoking as an unhealthy addiction, or promoting the idea of it as a glamourous habit.
So there was a bit […]
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Since the smoking ban in England, which came into force at the beginning of July 2007, it has been reported that there has been a steep rise in the sales of snuff. It appears that snuff is rapidly becoming the new fashion, with all sorts of novel flavours and scents of snuff now being manufactured. […]
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It’s a horrible thought that for many smokers that, as well as damaging the heart and your lungs, smoking can also be giving them wrinkles.
It is well known that smoking causes the blood vessels in the outermost layers of skin to contract, thus impeding the natural flow of blood to the skin, and not allowing […]
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Recently in the UK, another milestone has been achieved in the drive to denormalise tobacco smoking – the age at which young people can legally buy tobacco has been raised from 16 to 18, and this new ruling came into force from the beginning of October 2007.
Raising the age at which young people can buy […]
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A few days ago I spoke about FOREST, the organisation in the UK that purports to stand up for the “rights” of smokers, but is in fact mostly funded by the wealthy tobacco industry. Well, the antidote to FOREST is anti-smoking organisation ASH, Action on Smoking and Health, and there are ASH organisations in the […]
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For every social change for the better that comes about, it appears that is always a group that opposes it, and for the welcome changes in attitudes towards smoking, the opposition in the UK is an organisation known as FOREST.
FOREST is the Freedom Organisation for the Right to Enjoy Smoking Tobacco, and is mostly funded, […]
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