Ameican soliders in the Vietnam war had a different way of smoking, as this movie shows: Weed Smoking from smoke4me on Vimeo.

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Phil, then an EFL teacher working in Korea, was up to a pack a day, two when he went out drinking. He wasn’t helped by the fact that his girlfriend was a sixty-a-day girl . He was smoking Korean government cigarettes – which, ironically enough, were named long life! What helped him to give up [...]

Tobacco advertising wasn’t always banned. This movie is from a time when you could even use children’s cartoons to advertise cigarettes!

If you need some additional motivation to quit smoking, check out the Smoking Calculator on this ThisIsMoney.co.uk. By entering your age, the age when you started smoking and how many cigarettes you smoke a day, you can see how much you have spent on smoking throughout your life. Rather more positively, you can also see [...]

It’s a frequent debate between smokers and non-smokers. “Why should I pay for smokers out of my taxes?” complain the non-smokers. To which the smoker will point out the incredible tax they pay every time they light up. But with half of all smokers dying of a smoking related disease, is the tax on tobacco [...]

I was intrigued when an Australian friend told me about a drug which he had bought in Australia, subsidised by the government, to help him to stop smoking. The drug, he said, worked by affecting the part of the brain that made the smoker addicted. The drug was Champix, a precription quit-smoking drug manufactured by [...]

Doctors in Australia and America may soon be offering vaccines exclusively for smokers. Unfortunately this is not a vaccine which will help people to stop smoking, or even avoid taking up smoking. Instead it is hoped the vaccination will help smokers from getting certain diseases that often affect smokers. The vaccine is pneumococcal vaccine, which [...]

No smoker I have met has denied the relationship between smoking and alcohol – Rolf Harris has even written a song about the two of them: Nicotine and Alcohol. Some smokers have had to stop alcohol while they were giving up smoking, or at least kick the habit of going to the pub. Indeed, one [...]

A copy of our letter to the Princess of Wales: HRH Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall Clarence House London Your Royal Highness We would like to offer you the enclosed gift, an electronic cigarette, which is designed to assist in giving up smoking and can also be used without fear of passive smoking, as it not [...]