Some even inadvertently encouraged smoking: if you bang on about how bad cigarettes are you make them – to this group – sound good.
It was where he could count on the rare but sustaining comforts of old friendships, tender women, bad cigarettes, good beer, and fat Berlin sausages, and on the knowledge that he might possibly save some lives, while saving his own, whenever he had the chance.
We all know how bad cigarettes are for us, and doctors (mainly my sister-in-law) tell me quitting tobacco is the best thing I can do for my health.
This will allow you to taste your cigarette, and allow you to understand the difference between good and bad cigarettes.
HOLD ONTO YOUR BUTTS Bad news, cigarette tossers: cigarette butts have now been specifically designated as litter and, under a newly strengthened penalty, anyone caught tossing one is risking a $1,500 fine.
A small but powerful group, Pipedown includes among its patrons the conductor Simon Rattle and the cellist Julian Lloyd Webber, who is punchily direct about what he calls "the spreading cancer of piped music everywhere: an aural pollution every bit as bad as cigarette smoke".
"In terms of life-expectancy, we feel being overweight is as bad as cigarette smoking".
Even if it's not as bad as cigarettes, vaping is still dangerous, and it doesn't necessarily stop people from burning tobacco.
A provocative new billboard outside the Indianapolis Speedway home of the Indy 500 claims that hot dogs are just as bad as cigarettes when it comes to health effects.
They complained crossly about bad ventilation, smoked cigarettes and descended.
Even something as "bad" as smoking cigarettes can be "good".
