In Your Face Advertising
I saw these leaflets on every table outside a pub in Islington.
In Your Face Advertising
It will be interesting to see if it works, as unlike the Wonga ads on buses, you can’t but fail to get the message.
Interestingly, when I had my tooth out, the after-care leaflet they gave me, said I mustn’t smoke. I think the only time, I’ll ever smoke is in the crematorium! And that isn’t certain!
Is There A Link Between Violence in Hospital A & E Departments and Smoking?
The only Hospital A & E Department, I’ve been to in the last six or seven years or so, is Addenbrooke’s in Cambridge. Mostly, I was there because of stroke-related problem, but once because of C and once because I had a fishbone stuck in my throat.
The A & E Department at Addenbrooke’s has a great advantage over many others in the UK, in that it is some distance from the city centre, so it probably doesn’t get too many of the walk-in drunks, that litter up many other hospitals.
In all my visits, I’ve never seen any problems between patients and staff, but this would not seem to be the norm throughout the rest of the UK.
Smoking is banned in all hospitals, so could it be that the stress of an ill patient, is worsened, by not being able to light up. So they go outside for a quick fix and then when they get back in they’ve missed their place in the queue.
More research needs to be done.
The efforts of the Design Council to redesign A & E Departments may help and is to be welcomed.
Is There A Link Between Youth Unemployment and Smoking?
It is being reported that youth unemployment will be announced at a record level today.
As I walk around London, it would appear that I see more young people smoking, than people say over thirty. Many appear to gather for fags on street corners and it would appear that some don’t have jobs.
So are employers, saying that if you smoke, then we won’t employ you?
If I had a business, then I certainly wouldn’t employ anybody who smoked. After all, there is a very good choice of people out there.
Smoking at Bus Stops
I hate it, especially as my son died of a smoking related disease and it seems to make my hay fever and breathing worse.
To make matters even worse, my local stop is a changeover point for drivers and sometimes there are half-a-dozen in the shelter puffing away.
Rihanna Smokes on Album Cover
I wouldn’t know who Rhanna is! But I certainly don’t want to kow, as she is seen smoking on her new album cover.
What a bad example!
My only satisfaction, is that she is more likely to get the cancer than I am.
How Times Change
This was posted in the local newsletter.
The Rosemary Branch is looking to borrow a gentleman’s pipe from the 1950s for use a prop for an opera opening tomorrow. If you can help, you will get a couple of free tickets from a grateful Cec at the Rosie.
My father had loads of pipes in the 1950s. The last time I saw anybody smoking a pipe, it was clamped between a Belgian’s teeth as he drove towards me going the wrong way down a Belgian motorway.
Selfish Smoker
I was waiting outside a friend of mine’s offices, when an attractive shop assistant walked out of the back entrance of Heals, bought a coffee in the shop next to me and then crossed the road to where my friend worked and then proceeded to have a fag on the steps in front of the building.
The shop assistant suddenly wasn’t so attractive anymore. I bet she’ll be a lined old bag when she’s forty, if she continues to be attracted to the dreaded weed.
Smokers At The Adelphi
This picture reminds me of something, that you’d perhaps see in Amsterdam.
The Adelphi Hotel with Added Smokers
I also smile at the thought of my twenty-first birthday dinner with C in this hotel. She wore a purple dress from Through The Looking Glass. To say it was short would be an overstatement.
It’s a pity that the dress was thrown out years ago. It might be worth a few bob, as I suspect none from this boutique exist now.
Do 50% Tax Rates Work?
I don’t think so, except for financial advisors and accountants.
When the rate gets too high, people see an increasing amount of their money going in taxes and do something about it.
I remember, an accountant once told me of a client, who asked him to cut the amount he paid in tax. The client by the way had a small but successful manufacturing company. He told the client to leave some of the money he didn’t need in the business and invest it to make the business grow. The tax bill went down, but the wealth of the client’s company grew. I just looked it up on the Internet and its even bigger. Sadly the accountant carried on smoking like a chimney and died of lung cancer.
So I’m in favour of reducing the tax rate and removing the loopholes. This incidentally, is what Mrs. Thatcher did and the tax take rose. It also made a lot of accountants and financial advisors unemployed.
You could argue that we need a very simple tax system, that everybody on the Dalston Omnibus could understand.
But no government would ever do this, as they’d have to deal with large numbers of irate civil servants.
Holland & Holland
I believe this is a rather expensive shop in Bruton Street. I was really put off it because a man and a woman, who could have been employees, were having a cough and a drag outside.
The Anonymous Widower 