tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17766817.post1616288878066762524..comments2023-11-05T22:35:31.766+00:00Comments on Neil Clark: The Puffing PresidentNeil Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10479041156190090119noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17766817.post-53682378603613893662009-01-24T10:14:00.000+00:002009-01-24T10:14:00.000+00:00many thanks, olching. pleased you enjoyed it.you'l...many thanks, olching. pleased you enjoyed it.<BR/><BR/>you'll see that my cyberstalker was active on the NS comments thread last night, while normal people were at the pub or doing more interesting things. and in his attempt to smear me, guess which link he posted. Yes, to Stephen Pollard! quelle surprise! (he always links to either Pollard or Kamm).Neil Clarkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10479041156190090119noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17766817.post-74715037227967245912009-01-24T10:02:00.000+00:002009-01-24T10:02:00.000+00:00Nice article, Neil. Discovered it in the NS yester...Nice article, Neil. Discovered it in the NS yesterday. I always enjoy reading your valiant attempt to explain the cultural and social importance of smoking; keep it up!olchinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12155200018404294369noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17766817.post-14368373221707534392009-01-24T09:43:00.000+00:002009-01-24T09:43:00.000+00:00Hi Anna,There's a lot to be said for cigarette hol...Hi Anna,<BR/><BR/>There's a lot to be said for cigarette holders, not just because the greatest US President of all time used one.<BR/><BR/>"By smoking with a cigarette holder you are doing two things. <BR/><BR/>First, you are enjoying the pleasures of tobacco in the safest way possible: a silicon filter inserted in the holder reduces the intake of tar and other carcinogens by up to 30% . <BR/><BR/>Secondly, you are cocking a snook at the puritans and grunge merchants determined to eliminate the last vestiges of style from our lives. Surely, there is no single item known to man more stylish, sophisticated or downright sexy as a cigarette holder. There is also, in this age of corporate induced uniformity, no item more subversive.<BR/><BR/>Yesterday’s subversives used petrol bombs. Today’s only need a cigarette holder".<BR/><BR/>http://neilclark66.blogspot.com/2006/02/style-council.html<BR/><BR/>anonymous:<BR/>"Anyone who is addicted to smoking is not his or her "own" man or woman."<BR/><BR/>better to be addicted to tobacco than to launching wars of aggression.Neil Clarkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10479041156190090119noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17766817.post-63968355921301340892009-01-24T02:22:00.000+00:002009-01-24T02:22:00.000+00:00Anyone who is addicted to smoking is not his or he...Anyone who is addicted to smoking is not his or her "own" man or woman.<BR/><BR/>But of course being the President of the USA is an impossibly demanding job.<BR/><BR/>In the meantime I consider the election of Obama as the most significant political/cultural event since world war two. <BR/><BR/>He represents the possibility of something new emerging.<BR/><BR/>A possibilty which has immense historical forces, and vested interests working against it.<BR/><BR/>How do you even begin to turn around the current vast juggernaut---or rather collective cultural psychosis.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17766817.post-81903859046550832312009-01-24T00:37:00.000+00:002009-01-24T00:37:00.000+00:00In the bad ole days when I used to smoke, I used a...In the bad ole days when I used to smoke, I used a cigarette holder — vampish, noir, a great pose, and the crystals extracted gallons of gunk and saved my lungs from being tarmacced over worse than the M1.<BR/><BR/>Then I switched to little Davidoffs. They would have been cool if they weren't so fearsomely hot and nuked my alveoli to ash.<BR/><BR/>Now I am a Born Again Non-Smoker and give my cigarette-addicted Loved One hell every time he makes my hair smell of ashtrays like today when he (cont'd pg 94)Madam Miaowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10237951918529887305noreply@blogger.com