After only 6 weeks, members of the European parliament (MEPs) have reversed a decision banning smoking in their buildings. A committee of MEPs, decided that the ban was unenforceable.
Despite backing smoking bans in countries from Sweden to Ireland,
when it came to sticking to their own new year's resolution MEPs proved that they lacked willpower.
Anti-smoking have had a field day condemned
the hypocrisy, given that the European Union is promoting smoking bans across the continent.
Deborah Arnott, director of the antismoking charity Ash, described the latest
decision as 'scandalous'. Deborah went on to say: 'There can be no justification for politicians to place themselves above the law and it makes a mockery of the commission's proposals for an EU-wide smoking ban.
Sweden, Scotland, Ireland, Italy, and Belgium have made successfully introduced bans. Smoking in enclosed public areas was banned in England from 1st July 2007. Even France is joined the smoke-free
bandwagon. See more on Anti-smoking
campaigns
For thy sake, Tobacco, I would do anything but die. Charles Lamb, 1775-1834
Nicotine patches are great. Stick one over each eye and you can't
find your cigarettes
I have every
sympathy with the American who was so horrified by what he had read of the effects of smoking that he gave up reading. Henry G. Strauss, 1892-1974
Oscar Wilde: 'Do you mind if I smoke?' Sarah Bernhardt: 'I don't
care if you burn'
Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke. Lynda Barry
But how about this: 'Smoking The Bed'? See right -->
In the 'Maltermeister Turm' restaurant in Goslar, Sachsen State, Germany the chef
Michael Windisch, smokes his cheroot through a 'Smoking Point', that he built in a
restaurant wall. The idea is that not only can staff smoke at the Smoking Point, but also customers can go there for a quick drag. See inside view in picture to the right.
These holes have been made because of a smoking ban in restaurants
by Lower Saxony legislation. More German states implement smoking bans from the 1st of January 2008.
An anti-smoker in Bielefeld, Germany was so angry when his girlfriend lit a
cigarette that he set off a fire extinguisher to put out the fag.
'My colleagues said it looked like a bomb had gone off in there,' said a
police spokesman. 'He managed to put the cigarette out though.' After the woman
ignored his request not to smoke, the 42-year-old sprayed the contents of the
extinguisher all around the flat shouting abuse, police said. 'He said he wasn't
bothered by the damage it caused,' the spokesman said. 'And that he's through
with his girlfriend.'
Customers at a cliff-top hotel are being given umbrella hats when they go outside for a smoke. [Britain now has no smoking in all public areas]. Owner Chaz Charlton, 41, came up with the idea after she was
refused permission for a smoking shelter. Planning chiefs feared it would get blown away by sea gales, reports The Sun newspaper.
Instead guests at the Clifton Hotel in Portland, Dorset, UK now get
some protection from the elements if they wear the wacky headgear. Chaz said, 'The hats have been very popular because of the torrential rain we've been having.'
'World No Tobacco Day' is observed around the world every year on 31st May.
The member states of the World Health Organization [WHO] created World No
Tobacco Day in 1987. It draws global attention to the widespread prevalence
of tobacco use and to its negative health effects. This is where you
can see the initiatives
taken by WHO. By emphasising a No Smoking Day, WHO aims to reduce
the 5.4 million yearly deaths from tobacco related health problems.
UK No Smoking Day
No Smoking Day
is the UK's leading health campaign for smokers who want to stop. This
website has all the information and resources you need to quit smoking, or
to organise your own event on No Smoking Day.
In the UK No Smoking Day is always the second Wednesday in March so it
will be on 9th March in 2011. Every
year more than a million people, in the UK, quit smoking on No Smoking Day.
Will Gives Up Smoking
Will was once an inveterate smoker and stopped at 11.15am on 9th August,
2000. This time and date is branded into his memory.
In Will's opinion there is no magic bullet or quick fix to stopping the
habit. It takes determination to succeed and a trenchant commitment to not
starting again when things get difficult. The smoker must set a target and
stick to it and not allow anyone nor anything to deter him/her from the goal
of quitting.
Health Guru Used Humour In His Anti-Smoking Message
Charles "Charlie" Althafer, 77, a health educator who oversaw
anti-smoking campaigns, died on the 9th February, 2009 of heart failure at
his home in the USA. Friends, family and colleagues all agreed that Charles
Althafer didn't beat people over the head about the dangers of smoking;
instead he used humour regularly. For example, Will and Guy have
established that when someone asked to smoke in his home, he'd hand them a
wooden ashtray shaped like a coffin with a sticker: 'Please don't smoke. You
might croak.'
He also had a cigarette lighter that, when flicked, unleashed a horrific,
hacking cough.
Friends and family say such antics were vintage Althafer, in a
decades-long career with the Centres for Disease Control.
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A Selection of Smoking Humour
Laugh With Us At These Ten Short, Clean, Smoking Funnies and Jokes
'Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part
of your life.' - Quote attributed to the US actor, Brooke Shields,
during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign.
You know, lady, you don't actually smoke. The cigarette does
all the smoking, you are just the sucker.
'It is now proved beyond doubt that smoking is one of the
leading causes of statistics.' - Fletcher Knebel, Reader's Digest,
December 1961.
One thousand Americans stop smoking every day.......... by dying.
I kissed my first girl and smoked my first cigarette on the same
day. I haven't had time for tobacco since. - Arturo Toscanini
There are some circles in America where it seems to be more socially
acceptable to carry a hand-gun than a packet of cigarettes.- Katharine
Whitehorn
Ods me I marle what pleasure or felicity they have in taking their
roguish tobacco. It is good for nothing but to choke a man, and fill him
full of smoke and embers. - Ben Jonson [16th century English satirist,
poet, author and dramatist]
A custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the
brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black, stinking fume thereof
nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is
bottomless. -James I, King of England [1566-1625] In 1604 he published
"A Counterblaste to Tobacco".
My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are
paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.- William Faulkner [author]
A cigarette hanging from the lips of a woman is as sexy as a missing
tooth on her smile. - Paul Carvel
One that almost got away: What's the result of smoking too much?
Coffin.
Notice Displayed On An Aeroplane
There is no smoking in the cabin on this flight. There is also no smoking
in the lavatories. If we see smoke coming from the lavatories, we will
assume you are on fire and put you out.
This is a free service we provide.
A Funny Look At Giving Up In Stages
Clyde, a young man was at a birthday party and turned to his friend, Mike
and asked him for a cigarette.
'I thought you made the decision last week to quit smoking,' queried Mike
seriously. Ah, you see, I'm in the process of quitting,' muttered Clyde
amiably, 'Right now, I am in the middle of stage one.'
'What on earth is stage one?' questioned Mike.
'I've quit buying,' came Clyde's immediate retort.
A Funny Look At Using Patches
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Janet, a young woman confides to her friend, Molly, that she wants to
quit smoking, but nothing she does ever seems to work.
'Ah, but have you tried the patch yet?' Molly asks.
'No, that's one thing I haven't tried,' replies Janet, 'because I'm not
sure it works.'
Molly says clearly, 'I'm sure it would if you put it over your mouth.'
A Computer Buff's Funny View Of Smoking
Martin is standing on the corner of the Edinburgh Street, Middlesbrough,
chain smoking - smoking one cigarette after another.
Maggie is walking by notices him and says, 'Hey, don't you know that
those things can kill you? I mean, didn't you see the giant warning on the
box?'
'That's OK,' responds Martin, puffing casually, 'I'm a computer
programmer.'
'So? What's that got to do with anything?' splutters Maggie.
'We don't care about warnings. We only care about errors.'
Thought Provoking Anti Smoking Poetry
The Leg
The other day I gave
a cough And there and then my leg fell off A policeman near gave it a
stare And said, you cannot leave it there
I took it to a Doc who said
I'm sorry but this leg is dead I was so shocked I started grieving
Then I heard the leg still breathing
When I knew it wasn't dead I
rushed it to a hospital bed It was stitched back on by Dr Hay But
facing, alas the other way
Now, when I walk I have found I only go
around and around. Author Unknown
Emphysema Dad
Each breath makes your chest shudder My heart, a knife, a stab As
you try and take another
Emphysema Dad When can we go and play I'm only a young lad Don't
leave me Dad, please stay
Emphysema Dad To me you are fantastic But here on this clip pad
You're just one more statistic
Emphysema Dad There's a guy in the next bed Got gangrene, so he's
had An op - he's lost his leg
Emphysema Dad Don't smoke, you said, it's dumb The waste, the pain,
it's sad And cancer claimed your Mum
Emphysema Dad Being cool was one big lie It's a suicidal fad I
love you Dad, goodbye
Smokers have been prevented from using a wall-mounted ashtray outside a pub
after it became home to a family of blue tits. Regular drinkers at The Cottage,
in Thorpe St Andrew, near Norwich, Norfolk, England first noticed the birds a
few weeks ago. Now chicks have hatched inside, with a pair of blue tits
regularly seen flying to and from the small metal container to feed them.
This isn't the first time nesting has occurred; Will and Guy have found that
smokers at an office building in Cardiff, Wales were asked not to use an ashtray
in the spring, when a family of blue tits took up residence. Pictured here:
In Scotland, as well, a Great Tit family have made their home in a cigarette
bin despite the fact that purpose built nests are available. The bin at Vane
Farm, Loch Leven, Kinross holds four baby tits the RSPB [Royal Society for the
Protection of Birds, Scotland] has told Will and Guy.
The manager of a computer company who claimed that he fired three
non-smokers because they had threatened to upset working harmony, admitted that
the story was a hoax.
The hoax was exposed by Stephanie Lamprecht, a journalist at the Hamburger
Morgenpost. Apparently Thomas Joschko first told Stephanie that he had
fired the three from his 10-person staff because they were causing a disruption
with their non-smoking but later admitted the story was not true.
Lamprecht, whose story was published widely in the German and international
media last week, said: 'Joschko said it was a joke and worth the trouble. He
said he's a chain-smoker himself and said he was tired of smokers being hassled
so much.'
Lamprecht drove 120 km (75 miles) from Hamburg to Buesum on Monday to try to
confirm the story after doubts about its accuracy surfaced. She said the
Morgenpost planned to publish an updated version of the story in its Wednesday
edition.
'He said he was on a pro-smoker mission,' said Lamprecht. She said she had
checked some of the facts of his story last week and became suspicious that all
was not as it seemed.
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