It is not just Obama who has smoked, as Extreme Mortman has noticed,although it seems that it has been a long long time since Mc Cain last puffed – 43 seconds into this movie.

There are a number of wierd and wonderful smoking stories in the news today, starting with India. Police there are trying to enforce the ban there, but have met with derision when asking eunuchs to stop smoking. The eunuchs, who make their living by threatening to expose themselves to more prudish tourists and travellers, laughed [...]

This new anti-smoking ad from the British government plays upon childhood guilt and fear to help persuade mother’s to give up – a strategy which can be very effective, as our Sales Manager also found out (see Recurring Smoker!)

In an interesting post Thurber looks at smoking and gay marriage, wondering how the same people who support gay marriage can also oppose smoking. Her point is that both are practised by minorities, and in both cases the majority take away the right of the minority to do something. Which is an interesting point. At [...]

A routine test as part of a quit smoking programme for mother-of-two Annette Bolesworth has potentially saved the whole of her family from death. The test revealed that she had carbon monoxide in her blood stream equivalent to that of a chain smoker puffing his way through a hundred a day. Further investigation eventually revealed [...]

An unusual site that popped up on my alert today is Smokers News, a website which states that it is dedicated to being anti-anti-smoking. At first I thought that the site was amusing, but after browsing it for a while I decided it was either crackpot or dangerous and nasty. The site is actually dedicated [...]

Congratulations to Obama, both on winning the election – and in resisting the temptation to smoke during the stress of the campaign. Although, as we revealed in Smoking Obama, he did have the occasional drag (in cigarettes he ‘bummed’ of other campaigners) he managed to avoid resuming the habit in total. Apparently, this was part [...]

Smokers and non smokers at our local in Gower are now both happier – those inside are not freezing as the pub door enlessly opens and closes for the “diehard” smokers who refuse to stay indoors and suffer, conversations are not endlessly cut short due to the needs of the committed puffer, and the poor [...]

As you may have noticed we have removed all suggestions from our website that the Electronic Cigarette could help people to give up. We have reluctantly done this as the Government no longer allows vendors of the e-cigarette to state that the e-cigarette helps people to give up smoking – or even, as we had [...]

One of the most iconic photos of the war in Iran features a marine, face blackened, blood running down from his ear, with a cigarette hanging from his mouth, staring blankly at the sunset at the end of a battle. The picture sparked both admiration and anger. Admiration came from the warmongers seeking to glorfy [...]