Monthly Archives: March 2014

The Anti-musicians

Posted on March 31, 2014 by the archivist

Rose left  a link to a letter written by Murray Jarvik (the inventor of the nicotine patch, it appears) in 1964. In it he discusses the “possible virtues of smoking.” “As I see it all the emphasis during the last … Continue reading →

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A Tobacco Control Timeline

Posted on March 30, 2014 by the archivist

I was going to post the following last night, but got distracted. I’ve drawn a map of the advance of Tobacco Control ‘army’ over the past 60 years or so. The campaign starts in 1950 with the publication of Doll … Continue reading →

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Following On

Posted on March 29, 2014 by the archivist

Following on from my last post, I’d like to chew things over a bit more. In the comments, Michael McFadden wrote: Now, IN ORDER to win them over, they have to be willing to listen to and consider the eminently … Continue reading →

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Please Don’t Take Me Seriously

Posted on March 28, 2014 by the archivist

H/T Harley. I suppose that I ought to be pleased. Peter Oborne in the Telegraph has called for the smoking ban to be relaxed: There’s a quiet rebellion under way against bossy government …it is time for ministers to wake … Continue reading →

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Had To Laugh

Posted on March 26, 2014 by the archivist

I had to laugh. Somebody dropped a video in the comments here today: For the first minute or so I was wondering if it was an antismoking ad, given that the voice-over intones, “The medical evidence that tobacco is an unpleasant … Continue reading →

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Delighting in their Travails

Posted on March 26, 2014 by the archivist

I estimate that about one third of the adult population of Europe are smokers, and so it’s as one of about 140 million excluded, ostracised, and demonised European smokers that I take great delight in the present travails of the … Continue reading →

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Herzegovina Flor

Posted on March 25, 2014 by the archivist

Richard North has it about right, I think: Peter Hitchens thus has it, writing under the headline, “We’re being dragged into a new Cold War by a puffed-up bullfrog”. Stupidity and ignorance rule the world, he says, but the trouble is that … Continue reading →

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True Believers

Posted on March 24, 2014 by the archivist

Global warming alarmists seem to be throwing their toys out of the pram. In a splenetic piece in the Guardian, Nick Cohen writes: …the global warming deniers have won. adding, And please, can I have no emails from bed-wetting kidults … Continue reading →

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Close Approaches

Posted on March 23, 2014 by the archivist

A bit of spacey stuff I’ve been doing recently: Most of my orbital simulations have planets and other bodies as point masses. But I’ve recently been building simulation models of 3-dimensional bodies composed of numerous point masses held together in … Continue reading →

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Brock Chisholm

Posted on March 22, 2014 by the archivist

I spent quite a long time today reading about Brock Chisholm (born 1896, Canada. died 1971), who was the first Director General of the World Health Organisation, which was formed in 1948. According to Brock Chisholm, the World Health Organization, and the Cold War, … Continue reading →

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