Smoking to decrepitude

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This is an offer I can easily turn down, even though I am great supporter of the anti-smoking campaigns.

They write, "As part of our campaign activity we want to generate as much publicity as possible and to highlight to young people in particular, the dangers of tobacco and the harm it does.  This will encourage children and young people to stop smoking or better still, never to start.

 

As a high profile Welsh politician who young people see as a role model and look to for inspiration, we would be delighted if you would support the campaign by assisting us with our public relations activity.

We want to use your image to demonstrate the harmful effects of smoking on facial appearance using a unique and innovative, age progression software.  The software will predict how you might look in the future if you were a smoker. "

How I will 'look in the future'? Perhaps when I am 96 or 108? With or without smoking I think the pictures will be pretty grim. Perhaps it would be better if I sent in a picture of me at 30 and a recent one. That could show what I would have looked like if I had not stopped smoking 40 years ago.

This is my most recent picture. What would smoking have done for me? Frightening thought.

New Newport

Sculptor Sebastian Boyesen inspected the proposed site for the Raymond Steed statue on the banks of the Usk. Here pictured with Bert Bale,

 supremo of the Merchant Navy Association, Sebastian was impressed by this wonderful site.

The new flats have wonderful views over the Usk. they are very desirable residences.
 

 

 It would be grand to have the daily drama of the second highest tide in the world as a next door neighbour. 

Poetry rampant

Congratulations to whoever decorated the river walk with beautiful poetic concepts.

 

 Were they commissioned from one of Wales' national poets? Gillian Clarke is suspected. I do not recognise the lines from the famous poems written in praise of the river Usk. Stimulating and handsomely executed in Celtic script the message will intrigue and delight. The Millennium Centre in Cardiff led the way with giant poetic ideas.

 

The artery Usk drinking rain

The tide sneaks in the thief on the flats.

What footprints remain in company with trees that weep

Comments

[Kay Tie]

You look handsome and distinguished now. When you were younger you looked like a politician who couldn't say no to a free dinner! :-)

[HuwOS]

It's bizarre,
smoking is bad for you, we all know this.
Cancers, heart attacks, strokes etc.
As a smoker, I know that smoking reduces my life expectancy.

Bearing all this in mind, is the world so image obsessed that a campaign against smoking predicated on the idea that as a smoker you mightn't look as good as you could in later life would have greater success than ones advising that you won't have a later life.

Surely it has at least some risk of backfiring with people taking up a slogan of
"If you don't smoke, you will get old"

hmmm, is that a pro or anti smoking slogan.
Both I think.

[Kay Tie]

Huw, years ago it was discovered that the factual warnings were too scary to be heeded. The recent ones have focused on more tangible aspects and have been more successful (that one showing arterial fat oozing from a cigarette notably so).

If you want to argue the seriousness of smoking I'm fully in agreement. And I would also ask you to try to give up. It's your choice, of course.

[Paul Flynn]

Thanks very much KayTie - the camera cannot lie but it does flatter. Glad to hear something has improved with age.

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Many people are switching from traditional tobacco cigarettes to electronic. Some of them still have nicotine but don't produce the tar. Hopefully more studies will be done to ensure that these are in fact safe.

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