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Betrayal - Frank Davis
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Banging on about the Smoking Ban. March 10th, 2011. With the Conservative-led coalition government today unveiling an insane tobacco display ban, I'm reminded how a lot of people were arguing a year back that UK smokers should vote Conservative at the upcoming election. Voting UKIP, they said, was a wasted vote. The thing to do was to vote Conservative, because iDave wouldn't wear any further antismoking measures. It's something I could never have foreseen happening in my wildest imaginings. I think that...
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EU Declares War on Smokers - Frank Davis
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Banging on about the Smoking Ban. EU Declares War on Smokers. January 29th, 2010. Thanks to a commenter. I've learned that the German newspaper Bild is reporting that the EU has declared war on smokers. A dossier with recommendations for the 27 member states has been released by the EU. The objective - a 100 per cent smoke free environment . Health ministers proposed the paper and the EU parliament has approved it. Smoking police’: The EU states are being asked to set up a system for enforcing the smokin...
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Galliano - Frank Davis
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Banging on about the Smoking Ban. March 8th, 2011. I'm not much interested in fashion, so I wasn't in the least bit bothered when I heard that Christian Dior fashion designer John Galliano had been fired for making antisemitic remarks. And so it was largely by accident that I finally watched this heavily-edited video. Of him making the remarks. What I saw was astonishing. Galliano, as best I could make out, was sitting at night outside a Paris restaurant, and he was smoking. My guess, for what it's worth...
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A Libyan Appraisal - Frank Davis
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Banging on about the Smoking Ban. February 28th, 2011. At the moment there seems to be little sign that Gaddafi is likely to step down or be toppled in the immediate future. So what's likely to happen in the longer term? At the moment, with most of the weapons and troops in Libya, Gaddafi looks stronger than the rebels, in the west of Libya at least, and he looks set to recapture both Az Zawiyah and Misratah. What else is likely to happen when heavily armed soldiers confront mostly unarmed civilians?
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Body Language - Frank Davis
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Banging on about the Smoking Ban. March 7th, 2011. I've been watching Al Jazeera. Today It seems that in Tripoli Gaddafi's people have been celebrating recapturing the towns of Az Zawiyah to the west, and Misurata to the East. Al Jazeera spoke to people in both towns, and they both said that while Gaddafi's forces were attacking, they hadn't actually captured either town. So who do you believe? The first was Gaddafi's interview. It didn't work for Saif. Anita McNaught looks serenely beautiful in this...
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Two Restaurants in Japan - Frank Davis
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Banging on about the Smoking Ban. Two Restaurants in Japan. November 11th, 2009. After a while, the waiter returned, and flipped open a little notepad, and held a pen against it, and looked at me quizzically. It was time to order something. And so I dug into my memory for the only Japanese word that I could recollect, and said,. I loved the little place. It was always humming and busy and happy and welcoming. It was full of all sorts of real people, of all ages, coming and going. Eating out after 35.
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Kamaishi - Frank Davis
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Banging on about the Smoking Ban. March 12th, 2011. It's been one of those days when you turn on the box and find yourself caught up in an unfolding drama. I've been watching footage of the Japanese earthquake and tsunami disaster. It's astonishing that I've been able to see it within hours of it being shot. Particularly arresting was the Al Jazeera video clip below (there's a similar clip in the Guardian. Which shows the tsunami in Kamaishi city docks. There's an astonishing amount happening in it.
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Drop Dead - Frank Davis
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Banging on about the Smoking Ban. March 9th, 2011. I had a letter from the NHS last week, inviting me to sign up for a cancer screening programme. I was surprised I was invited. These days one expects to be ordered. But then, perhaps "invite" now means "order". You never know. I won't be accepting the invitation, or obeying the order, whichever is appropriate. Why should I want to find out if I've got cancer? Doctors are no longer people who can be trusted. They have become people to fear. They a...I thi...
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2011 - Frank Davis
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Banging on about the Smoking Ban. Velvet Glove Iron Fist. The Truth Is A Lie. Mud in the Blood. Watts Up With That. Occasional thoughts on smoking, smoking bans, science, ethics, politics. Have you been made isolated or lonely by a smoking ban? Have you lost contact with friends as a result of a smoking ban? Do you know anyone who has become isolated after a smoking ban was introduced? Your story should be told! Let me know about it at cfrankdavis@googlemail.com. We once were an happy crowd.
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A Separate Reality - Frank Davis
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Banging on about the Smoking Ban. March 8th, 2011. The current draconian Spanish smoking ban came into force on 2 Jan 2011. Translated from El Correo. The stakes are high. A document sent to the mail by the president of the Basque Navarre Society for the Prevention of Smoking, Carlos Cortijo, said that the statistics of membership of the Social Security Ministry of Labour "shows that the number of people employed by the industry increased "from January 2010 to January 2011.". And so when the ban was intr...
