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Monday, September 25, 2006

Portrait of a Bloody Fool


You might be forgiven for not knowing who this bozo is but for your information he is Dr Brian Gibbons of the Welsh Assembly and a keen proponent of a smoker ban for Wales.

You may know that the Assembly - known for short in widening circles as 'The Ass' - intends to implement its smoker ban on April 2nd next year, the day after All Fools Day and an appropriate time for fools to implement such a ban too.

Indeed, for as the Assembly falls over itself to show it has balls (in an atrophied kind of way) by beating England to the draw over implementation of a ban, it has failed to take into account the immediate effect this will have on pubs in Wales' border counties. Clients of these pubs will immediately pop over into England to do their drinking and socialising thus causing an instant and drastic loss to income from trade.

Many of us read the Assembly's Report of the Committee on Smoking in Public Places and we know what a deeply flawed piece of nonsense it is presenting several of the usual pieces of junk science and misinformation. We also know that the Ass took the word of tobacco control organisations over that of trade bodies with regard to ban damage. Small wonder then that Gibbons and his antismokerist chums (which include Wales' head buffoon Rhodri Morgan) should fail to consider the immediate effect on border county pubs that implementing a ban before England will have.

Moreover, it may surprise some that bans should be proceeding at all when one considers the negative effects of the bans in Ireland and Scotland. The ban in Ireland is already a fiasco with 624 pubs gone, 12,500 jobs lost and smoking rates up. Likewise, with Scotland and already, losses add up to 65 pubs and 5 bingo halls closed and all this by the end of the first summer. No wonder many Scots are not looking forward to the winter.

Next, we may consider, following the Assembly's Report plus the McFadden Critique of that report, precisely what Gibbons - a doctor - knows about interpreting epidemiology given the crass literature on which the Ass based its decision. All I can say is that if Gibbons is that much of a bloody fool I'm glad he¹s not my physician. Oh...I forgot, he and his chums are on a holy crusade so they may be deliberately ignoring the truth in accord with the common practice of antismokerism. (Still glad he's not my physician.)

Many years ago, the Archdruid -WKRP George - described the Welsh as "a nation of warring nightingales." This is a delightfully picturesque description and the Welsh, by en large, may still truly be such. However, Wales' Assembly is a stable of braying donkeys.

Blad Tolstoy.


P.S. You may notice that Gibbons has yellow teeth and he isn't even a smoker.

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Friday, September 22, 2006

Walkers Crisps











You will find the picture links to BHF and the title links to Walkers.

Walkers accuses BHF of "scare tactics".
We told you so!

So wot's the difference?
Food is a necessary item but fags aren't, but crisps are not essential.

So wot are the similarities?
Crisps are nice, so are fags?

R crisps addictive?
I expect I could prove that and food certainly has disorders and addictive characteristics.

I wander wot the equivalent volume of oil would be associated with the yearly intake of chocolate?

Well done to Walkers for speaking up and another black mark for the British Heart Foundation.

Who says crisps are bad for you anyway?

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Wednesday, September 13, 2006

NHS smoking stinks video adjustment

Click the link above to see my first attempt at improving the stinky video!
Just for you Blad!
Happy holidays!

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Sunday, September 10, 2006

You Stink!

I find this new NHS advertising campaign offensive. I also don't know how it marries with the current financial health of the service to be spending so much on income-negative propaganda when doctors and nurses are being made redundant.
How come this is acceptable language for an advert on national TV when we are tip-toeing our way through politically correct details such as Muslim patient wear in the NHS?

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