The agreed smoking ban to take effect in England on 1 October, was hailed by the chief medical officer, Prof Dame Sally Davies, as a considerable triumph for protecting youngster’s health from secondary smoke. Members of parliament voted for the measure, which won by 342 to 74 votes. Prof Kevin […]

Sunday 20th of April. 420 Day Protests The day ended as it had begun, cold and wet. I had arrived at my local train station to find that I was nearly a whole hour early for the train I intended to catch. As I sat on the platform and waited, […]

Celebrities are renowned for driving big cars, wearing expensive clothes and buying lavish mansions, but there’s something else that’s been exciting the A-listers of late – electric cigarettes. That’s right, with companies like eshishin.co.uk offering the very best e-cigs on the market, the rich and famous have jumped on the […]

Everyone thinks of going to university as the chance to reinvent themselves. For many it will be the first time that they won’t be living at home, making the decisions for themselves away from the watchful eyes of their parents. That party happening at a friend’s house? You’re there. Those […]

‘Calm down, have a cigarette?’ my try hard mother dictates to me across the family dinner table – she says it to sound ‘down with the kids’, as I know she’d put it. What I should establish now is that mine is a family of certain unsaid but engrained values […]