Since July 1 2007, in England it has been against the law to smoke in any enclosed or partially enclosed public space, but it has come to my attention that back in August of this year members of the Rolling Stones flouted the smoking ban at a gig – tut tut.
The culprits were, Ronnie Wood […]
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Did you manage to give up smoking once, but then lapse back into it again, due to stress, change, or whatever? Then after this did you find it hard to get back on the straight and narrow? Did having given up once, and then gone back to smoking, put you off from any renewed efforts […]
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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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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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