| The pleasure of smelling the roses. | | | | There are a number of devises on the market |
| | | | that smokers can use to reduce the intake of |
| With the amount of money spent by governments | | | | tar and one of the most practical seems to be |
| on anti smoking campaigns, the various | | | | a mini, inconspicuous cigarette holder called |
| controversies over cigarette advertising and | | | | targuard. |
| the number of places where smoking is no | | | | |
| longer permitted, ever cigarette smoker in | | | | A good friend of mine swears by them because |
| the western world must be aware that it is a | | | | without the use of chemicals or moving parts, |
| habit that at least damages their health and | | | | they manage to take out well over half the |
| at worst will kill them. | | | | tar before the smoke is inhaled. |
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| And yet, depending on whose figures you take | | | | It is all done by the centrifuge principal, |
| as the best estimate, it seems between 15 and | | | | or so he tells me, but whatever it is there |
| 20% of the population still smoke cigarettes. | | | | is no doubting the disgustingly visible brown |
| | | | sticky deposit left in the filter and the |
| Even though I gave up my 30 plus a day habit | | | | certainty that it is better left in there |
| nearly 20 years ago, I can still remember | | | | than taken into the body. |
| that 'tight' feeling across my chest in the | | | | |
| mornings and the need for a throat clearing | | | | He uses them for four or five cigarettes and |
| cough after I had brushed my teeth. | | | | then throws them away and he really does |
| | | | reckon that his breathing has improved |
| I also never realised then that food had so | | | | considerably since he started using them |
| much variety of taste and flavour or that | | | | regularly and he notices more subtle |
| actually being able to smell the roses was | | | | differences between the various red wines he |
| such a pleasure. | | | | is for ever sampling. |
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| I guess there is little or no chance of my | | | | So from me one last plea to readers who still |
| lone voice having any effect when I tell | | | | smoke cigarettes. Please do try once more to |
| people they really should stop smoking, as | | | | give up, there are after all any number of |
| they continue to ignore the severe warning | | | | courses, patches and other forms of help |
| metered out by the great and the good. | | | | readily available. |
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| There has been a great many views expressed | | | | To those that ignore this plea, at least |
| on the benefits or other wise of smoking so | | | | smoke in a little less unhealthy way by using |
| called low tar cigarettes and investigation | | | | targuard or something similar to take out a |
| into the subject does indicate that along | | | | substantial amount of the damaging tar before |
| with the habit forming nicotine and hundreds | | | | it enters your body. |
| of other chemicals inhaled in the cigarette | | | | |
| smoke, none of which do you any good, it is | | | | The End |
| the sticky tar that leads to repertory | | | | |
| difficulties and depressed sense of taste and | | | | Article by author and journalist Hannah |
| smell. | | | | Chartwell who can be contacted at |
| | | | hbc@severnc.co. |