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Players Cigarette Ad circa 1982 - Demonstrates the Backhand Pass
This ad was scanned from the Maple Leaf Magazine that was distributed March 17, 1982 during the Toronto Maple Leafs vs Quebec Nordiques game at Maple Leaf Gardens. Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Vaccin mot nicotinberoende
GlaxoSmithKline är nu nära att ta fram ett vaccin som bildar antikroppar mot nicotin och förhindrar att hjärnan bildar beroende. Framtid.
Läs mer på telegraph.co.uk - Anti-smoking vaccine could soon be available
Smoking Rate: 21.8% in Japan in 2008
The Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry said Monday that the
smoking rate among the men and women in total was 21.8% in
the survey conducted a year ago.
Women: 9.1% The ministry attributed the smoking rate decrease to rising
health consciousness and introduction of "taspo" smart cards
in July last year.
http://www.mhlw.go.jp/houdou/2009/11/h1109-1.html
Smoking Rate: 6.5% amongst Young People in Ireland in 2009
A new report was conducted in collaboration with the World
Health Organisation.
almost 20,000 children aged between 11 and 15 in Ireland,
England, Scotland and Wales. After England, young people in Ireland had the lowest level
of daily smoking at 6.5%.
Hockney Smoking iPhone
Artist David Hockney isn't afraid of picking up new media -- over the years, he's used Polaroids, photocollages, and even fax machines to create his art -- in addition to regular, old-fashioned painting. Now, he's taken to using his iPhone to create new works of art. The resultant "paintings" have been exhibited at the Tate Gallery and Royal Academy in London, as well as galleries in Los Angeles and Germany. Like artist Jorge Colombo (whose iPhone fingerpainting was featured on the cover of The New Yorker), Hockney uses the iPhone app Brushes to create his works.
It's always there in my pocket, there's no thrashing about, scrambling for the right color. One can set to work immediately, there's this wonderful impromptu quality, this freshness, to the activity; and when it's over, best of all, there's no mess, no clean-up. You just turn off the machine. Or, even better, you hit Send, and your little cohort of friends around the world gets to experience a similar immediacy. There's something, finally, very intimate about the whole process.
Hollywood star Marlene Dietrich, who added to the perceived glamour of smoking. Photograph: PA
Deborah Arnott is a professional anti-smoker. She makes her living from it. She thinks she can "save lives". Since we all get a lifetime and she is not offering immortality, what she means is you might have a longer life.
Given the choice of 50 years as a free person or 70 years as a slave, she would choose slavery. I wouldn't, and I suspect there are many like me, as most people seem to go for quality of life not quantity. Time, the great mystery, is elastic. Watch the kettle boil and it takes "a long time"...
This quantitative view of life seems dominant today among the medical profession and politicians as though they can and should make these kind of choices for us. It seems a recent phenomenon, and not really very wise. On big issues it might be good, but on small ones it's tyrannical.
Smoke 'em If You Got 'em - Only If the State Will Let You
In the interest of full disclosure, before I jump in to my opinion on this matter, I am an acquaintance of one of the owners of The Lobby.
Later this week a new bar will open downtown Boise called The Lobby, offering a unique atmosphere (no pun intended) in a smoke-free environment. While bars and restaurants in Idaho are exempt from the Idaho Clean Indoor Air Act passed in 2004, The Lobby has a very good reason as to why they are smoke-free. The Lobby will display and sell works of art from local artists in their establishment. Clearly, customers smoking in the bar would not be good for the artwork as it is an important part of their business.
In creating this establishment, the owners of The Lobby have decided, by choice, to not allow smoking. They were not mandated - as it should be - by a law to operate their business in a certain fashion. However, groups in the Boise area are working hard to fill in the gaps of the law by having smoking banned in bars and restaurants all together. All of this in the name of protecting employees and customers of these establishments.
Let us not forget we have choices to either work in these establishments or not. We have choices to either patron these establishments or not. Shouldn't it be the right of the owner to decide if they want their establishment smoking or non-smoking just as I have the freedom to decide whether or not I want to work or patron their establishment?
making a mockery of government, and democracy, and...
There has been a betrayal of the highest decisions of governmental bodies that have the authority to create laws
I am trying really hard to be positive and say nice things, really I am. It's not my fault that there is SO MUCH crap and bullshit around at the moment. And this one is a REAL doozy.
Apparently, when the Health Law was approved by the DPR, it had an article in it that dealt with tobacco and smoking. Somehow the article had disappeared from the Law when it was presented to the President for signing. I am willing to accept that this could be an honest mistake, but in the face of strong lobbying from the tobaco industry, it seems to be quite unlikely coincidence.
What is REALLY dumb, is that whoever decided to remove the article forgot to remove the explanation that is contained in the Elucidation. If you haven't seen a law before, each law is in two parts, the main body with all the articles, and the Elucidation, which is used for interpretation.
Anyway, back to the topic at hand... SBY and the DPR have one hell of a hard task ahead of them: restoring public confidence in government. Wow.
