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