Daily Archives: March 15, 2009

The Last Cigarette

Warm, candid and with a double dose of dark humour, this dramatisation of Simon Gray’s The Smoking Diaries and other memoirs was completed just before his death last summer. Notable for his uncompromising honesty and a wit both fierce and…

No smoking in most of Belmont

The law is the first of its kind in California, going far beyond the statewide prohibition against lighting up in businesses, restaurants and bars. In Belmont, it is now illegal to smoke inside any multistory, multiunit dwelling. The City Council…

Smoking ban important

Tobacco control is still a hard nut to crack in China. That’s why dozens of deputies to the National People’s Congress and members of the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference tabled motions on it at the…