Puff and Nonsense

ruminations on the next proposed smoking ban

Sep 01, 2024

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File:Miss Maie Ashe, actress, reclining, smoking a cigarette (postcard).jpg — Photographer unknown, signed by Dover St. Studios; uploaded on Flickr by Felix O, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

IN HER autobiography the actress, singer and former heroin addict Marianne Faithfull mentioned in passing that John Lennon, himself a former addict, expressed the opinion that “smoking grounds you”.1 Lennon’s friend and erstwhile collab…

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