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Tag Archives: isolation
A Social Catastrophe
I’ve been wondering recently whether I’ve been unusually unlucky in having the smoking ban completely shatter my social life. I had a wide circle of friends 5 or 6 years ago, and now most of them are gone – all … Continue reading
A New Graveyard
I’ve started a new blog (click on pic). Well, not really a new blog. I won’t be adding to it daily. Or at least I hope not. I’m still not quite sure what to call it. It’s really a graveyard. … Continue reading
FU Too
These people are experts. They know what they’re doing. I keep thinking I’m going to wake up one day soon, and Greece will have defaulted on its debts, and revived the drachma, and half the banks in Europe will have … Continue reading
Insiders and Outsiders
It puzzles me sometimes why there are no moves towards finding a compromise solution to the smoking problem, by allowing separate smoking rooms in pubs, or separate smoking pubs. But I think the answer to this is that the antismokers … Continue reading
Golden Brown
A couple of days back, DP was writing about how the smoking ban had not been subjected to an independent review. The result is that we have a piece of legislation which has been ruthlessly implemented to the letter, except … Continue reading
The Loneliness Triblogology
Freedom2Choose has an important series of blog posts on loneliness. There are three of them. The first is here, the second here, and the third here. It’s my own personal conviction that the really serious damage that smoking bans do … Continue reading
The Disease of Loneliness
H/T Phil Williams, the Campaign to End Loneliness: Loneliness is bad for your health. The World Health Organization (WHO) rates loneliness as a higher risk than lifelong smoking. Interesting comparison. Not one that I’ve heard before. The report distinguishes loneliness … Continue reading
Smoking Ban Kills 12,000 a Year
One of the worst things about the smoking ban, in my view, is the social damage it has done. For many smokers, the pubs they had once frequented became unwelcoming places, and they stopped going. And if much of their … Continue reading
We once were an happy crowd
Another report drawn from comments here a couple of days back. This one is (probably) from The Free Corps: We once were an happy crowd Ernie. Disabled .Parks his wheelchair behind a wheely bin to keep out of the draught … Continue reading
An Appeal To Readers
Last night I posted up a piece which was, in part, about the social isolation and disintegration that I thought the smoking ban was causing. This evening, among the responses, there was the following anonymous message: I am getting too … Continue reading
