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A love of nicotine unites all peoples across the globe, regardless of colour, wealth or creed. Where religion and politics have failed tobacco has succeeded, but at what cost? For over 50 years people have been knowingly paying for the pleasure of tobacco with their lives, making man’s fatal tryst with the cigarette one of the strangest love affairs ever.
But as smoking bans in the US and Europe abound, what is happening in poorer nations? Their love affair is still in its first flush – one third of the world’s cigarettes are smoked in China alone. And globally the tobacco industry is still worth $430 billion and going strong.
Intrigued by our planet’s obsession with the cigarette, we decided to capture our love affair with nicotine across the world on one single day
Filed under Quit Smoking by on Oct 25th, 2011. Comment. 
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A love of nicotine unites all peoples across the globe, regardless of colour, wealth or creed. Where religion and politics have failed tobacco has succeeded, but at what cost? For over 50 years people have been knowingly paying for the pleasure of tobacco with their lives, making man’s fatal tryst with the cigarette one of the strangest love affairs ever.
But as smoking bans in the US and Europe abound, what is happening in poorer nations? Their love affair is still in its first flush – one third of the world’s cigarettes are smoked in China alone. And globally the tobacco industry is still worth $430 billion and going strong.
Intrigued by our planet’s obsession with the cigarette, we decided to capture our love affair with nicotine across the world on one single day
Filed under Quit Smoking by on Oct 23rd, 2011. Comment.
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A love of nicotine unites all peoples across the globe, regardless of colour, wealth or creed. Where religion and politics have failed tobacco has succeeded, but at what cost? For over 50 years people have been knowingly paying for the pleasure of tobacco with their lives, making man’s fatal tryst with the cigarette one of the strangest love affairs ever.
But as smoking bans in the US and Europe abound, what is happening in poorer nations? Their love affair is still in its first flush – one third of the world’s cigarettes are smoked in China alone. And globally the tobacco industry is still worth $430 billion and going strong.
Intrigued by our planet’s obsession with the cigarette, we decided to capture our love affair with nicotine across the world on one single day
Filed under Quit Smoking by on Oct 20th, 2011. Comment.
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A love of nicotine unites all peoples across the globe, regardless of colour, wealth or creed. Where religion and politics have failed tobacco has succeeded, but at what cost? For over 50 years people have been knowingly paying for the pleasure of tobacco with their lives, making man’s fatal tryst with the cigarette one of the strangest love affairs ever.
But as smoking bans in the US and Europe abound, what is happening in poorer nations? Their love affair is still in its first flush – one third of the world’s cigarettes are smoked in China alone. And globally the tobacco industry is still worth $430 billion and going strong.
Intrigued by our planet’s obsession with the cigarette, we decided to capture our love affair with nicotine across the world on one single day
Filed under Quit Smoking by on Oct 19th, 2011. Comment.
I’m thinking of quitting smoking…no small task. But instead of quitting out of some sense of guilt or shame, like because smoking is bad or because others negatively judge those who do it, I want to apply some ideas that I have come across through podcasts and philosophy to make this a pleasurable process. That is, instead of using pain and punishment as a mode of discipline, I want to discipline myself to quit smoking through the use of pleasure. If and when I want a cigarette, I will ask myself, “What would I enjoy even more than a cigarette right now?” and then do that. You can listen to the podcast I mention here: www.radiolab.org (By the way, Radiolab is one of my favorite podcasts! The shows are definitely worth a listen.) And you can read my blog post about the Creation, Intensification and Multiplication of Pleasures here: littlebirdpoettree.blogspot.com
Filed under Quit Smoking by on Aug 10th, 2011. 23 Comments.
Hi, my name is Karen and I am a non-smoker. Having kicked my addiction to nicotine and cigarettes I am living a healthier no smoking lifestyle. If you would like to be a non-smoker, too, join me on your quest to find the best solution to help you stop smoking.
