Index to Smoking & Tobacco Control

once a smoker always a smoker
Reports that Barack Obama has broken his pledge to quit smoking by sneaking a few cigarettes do not surprise Sissy as much as his ridiculous decision to quit smoking in the first place.



Elisabeth Fritzl Locked Up For Smoking
When Marta read that Josef Fritzl’s reasons for imprisoning his daughter included her vile, disgusting habit of smoking she could feel 80% of the western world relaxing a bit – feeling less hostile towards him.


smoking scientists discredited
Watching a science debate Lottie was gobsmacked when one of the debating panelists tried to destroy the life work of an eminent scientist by saying, shock horror, that the man was a smoker and had published a paper debunking SHS.


powwows and peace pipes
Celeste believes what's missing from the war between the tobacco companies and the anti-smoking organizations - and the harassment of smokers by community bullies that results from it - is a lack of knowledge about the ancient healing powers of tobacco and our spiritual connections with smoke and fire.

smoking milch cows
Eileen, a social worker, is convinced that the whole smoking issue is one big Milch Cow for lawyers, anti-smoking organizations, government health departments and tobacco companies; and it's the poorest cows of all, those already victimized by society who smoke to make their miserable lives a bit better, who are literally being milked dry.


recession smokers
Nessie works near the financial hub of the city and she's noticed a lot more smokers huddled outside buildings, puffing madly, since the recession started to bite.


pushy railway smokers
A railway platform incident – involving two guys smoking under a footbridge, an anti-smoking older woman, a push, a stumble and a fall onto the tracks – has brought out another spate of venom against smokers.

fleecing smokers
Calista applauds Martin Whisker's brave protest against the new smoking ban by refusing to stub out his cigarette in a pub, but accepts that it's likely to be the only protest because most smokers cannot afford the fines.


smoking invasions
Moya, is under considerable pressure at work to quit even though smoking is something she indulges in at home, not at work, and she sees the whole quit campaign as being as criminal, shortsighted and venal as the Iraq invasion; and pushed by the same type of opportunistic people, for the same reasons.


cafe gestapo
During the summer vacation Delta took her two children to a fashionable al fresco cafe -- smoking permitted and ashtrays provided. The cakes she ordered were served by a surly older man who deliberately and rudely embedded the forks upright in them.


save us from the fanatics!
Leonie is 82, remembers Hitler and the Fascist thugs that set out to change the world according to their fanatic beliefs, and while no longer much of a smoker herself, she defends the right of those who choose to exercise their civil liberty to do so.


anti-social smokers?
Contrary to the belief that smoking is mainly a sociable habit, taken up by impressionale young people in order to fit in with a crowd -- a belief upon which anti-smoking deterrants are based -- Topaz, 23, took it up because she wanted to keep people -- especially men -- away from her!


smokers should read gay pride book
Justina thinks it's time for smokers everywhere to counteract the anti-smoking zealots by adopting the collective tactics of the gay pride movement - or are smokers too individualistic and laid-back to organize a collective fight-back?


elizabethan smokers
Leila points out the irony of our times. In the final years of Elizabeth I's reign smoking took off and Britain soared, and in the final years of Elizabeth II's reign it's being killed off and Britain sinks.




smoking in japan
Felicity's husband -- a heavy smoker like herself -- was killed by a drunk driver not lung cancer; and of all the countries she's visited since his death it was only in Japan that she was able to light up in public without attracting the sort of hate-filled censure that she experienced everywhere else.

you light up my life
Maeve once worked at a factory where the janitor -- a recent immigrant from Greece -- fell madly in love with her and not only sang the song You Light Up My Life for her but also bought her a packet of her favorite cigarettes in the hope that when she lit up he would become the light of her life too!

teenage rebellion smoking
Leah is 42, an only child, a single working mother and a smoker. She belongs in the age group that she believes to be the most intolerant towards smoking -- those born in the 1960s to parents who did not stop at cigarettes to get their kicks -- so it is surprising that she took up the habit.

tobacco tax funding ASH ads?
When the government raises tobacco tax -- saying it's to pay for the health costs of smoking -- Pilar begrudingly pays more for her cigarettes, but when she sees government funded anti-smoking advertisements she wants to know who's running the country (ASH or our elected representatives?) and how dare they waste revenue raised from smokers to fund disgusting advertisements designed to beat us up!


airbrushing smokers

Le Grand Fag Parasite

cigarette muggers

anti-smokers target women, avoid men

brainwashed anti-smoking terrorists

are anti-smokers so perfect?

non-smoker or intolerant?

weak-willed ex-smokers

smoking president, new deal?

anti-smoking blindness

smoking and boiled frogs

anti-smoking propaganda or hook?

smoking on balconies

perfect tolerance of smokers

Tobacco and America's Convict Past

plain pack smokers

Fergie smokes, so what?

gory tobacco ads

Fifty years of anti-smoking

How’s the war against smoking going?

Fight big tobacco not smokers!

smoking healthier than homosexuality?

nanny states and smokers

health nuts, geriatrics and smokers

Anti-smoking media tarts

ASH goes MADD

New York Gays Win, Smokers Lose

Licensed to smoke?

anti-smoking funeral stunt