tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post3484067941661551333..comments2024-01-01T16:01:35.711+00:00Comments on Dick Puddlecote: ASH Fire Up The StatmobileDick Puddlecotehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01481866882188932892noreply@blogger.comBlogger21125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-50041121473460851492010-08-31T15:20:05.816+01:002010-08-31T15:20:05.816+01:00I suppose the cheering sense I gain from this is t...I suppose the cheering sense I gain from this is that ASH actually do feel under some threat. <br /><br />I was beginning to wonder whether Tobacco Control was more important than even nuclear deterrence.Frank Davishttp://frank-davis.livejournal.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-34963849375741761632010-08-31T07:38:41.192+01:002010-08-31T07:38:41.192+01:00What timbone says but, according to the Beeb this ...What timbone says but, according to the Beeb this morning, it's to be made easier for local authorities to create new by-laws; ASH might well instruct its local divisions to focus on councils to introduce no-smoking in parks (they seem already to have responded to Camberon's Big Society by shifting focus to localism).<br /><br />JayAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-39583385751871179922010-08-31T00:17:24.028+01:002010-08-31T00:17:24.028+01:00I think there is a distinct possibility that our p...I think there is a distinct possibility that our present coalition have no intention of spending any more time or money on adding to the Public Health Act which came into force on 1st July 2007. Two thirds of the Tories voted against it. “We will not be re-visiting the smoking ban,” may not be music to the ears of disenfranchised smokers. What does that statement say however to the anti smoking fanatics?timbonehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06985165416240833253noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-64527134163557967302010-08-30T20:14:05.643+01:002010-08-30T20:14:05.643+01:00Anon @ 12:43: Yes, it's a real survey.
As fo...Anon @ 12:43: Yes, it's a real survey. <br /><br />As for piling in, there's not much point as the responses would be discarded. Besides, isn't it better to see what comes of it, if anything? Should be quite a laugh. :)Dick Puddlecotehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01481866882188932892noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-41750583525187243952010-08-30T19:40:33.789+01:002010-08-30T19:40:33.789+01:00Bummer. Should read; 'Live longer'.Bummer. Should read; 'Live longer'.Bill Stickerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05285528897339442436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-70333796416807192272010-08-30T19:38:51.658+01:002010-08-30T19:38:51.658+01:00Slightly OT, but in keeping (I think) with the aim...Slightly OT, but in keeping (I think) with the aims of this blog; <a href="http://news.nationalpost.com/2010/08/30/heavy-drinkers-live-longer-than-non-drinkers-study-finds/" rel="nofollow">Study finds heavy or moderate drinkers live long than total abstainers</a>.<br /><br />Irony, eh?Bill Stickerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05285528897339442436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-65418464097011101272010-08-30T19:07:59.414+01:002010-08-30T19:07:59.414+01:00Fuel for Pickles's bonfire of the vanities?Fuel for Pickles's bonfire of the vanities?Joe Publichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02584863023143282896noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-20377237661159221502010-08-30T12:43:15.531+01:002010-08-30T12:43:15.531+01:00Is this for real - I thought you were joking ?Is this for real - I thought you were joking ?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-86882941696456725822010-08-30T11:12:17.486+01:002010-08-30T11:12:17.486+01:00The time has come for all who
cry freedom to conce...The time has come for all who<br />cry freedom to concentrate their<br />total united attention on, for<br />starters ASH<br />For one solid month , all who are willing and able to dig up and ressurect any morsel of info,<br />the funding,the lies,the pretence,<br />the sweeteners and any granule of <br />smear.<br />Get it into plain english,print it<br />big and ensure those who have suffered most at the hands of<br />ASH get the message<br />.<br />One sheet,both sides, one piece<br />easy to read ,simple to take in.<br /><br />Put them on the rack and when and<br />if they crack find the next bunch of zealots,same again.<br />One at a time.<br /><br /><br />The Profane await a masterpiece<br /><br /><br />RennaisanceAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-71757510600367467822010-08-30T10:18:19.495+01:002010-08-30T10:18:19.495+01:00Well ASH if they want to exist should be completel...Well ASH if they want to exist should be completely funded by private means.<br />No takers ?<br />Wonder why ?<br />For sale ,one miserable failure,one incompetent bigoted cabal.<br />They are finished without public money ,this simple logic should be enough to see why cutting the funding would be a good idea.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-8673263889903703512010-08-30T09:33:06.529+01:002010-08-30T09:33:06.529+01:00Lansley needs to know what these lying deviants ar...Lansley needs to know what these lying deviants are up to. Who's going to tell him? FOREST? F2C?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-33477103795956204792010-08-30T08:41:47.535+01:002010-08-30T08:41:47.535+01:00Anon@21:46
That's a good idea. How about it D...Anon@21:46<br /><br />That's a good idea. How about it Dick?<br /><br />xAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-71555911135132677212010-08-30T04:14:48.632+01:002010-08-30T04:14:48.632+01:00Anon.
For heaven's sake! Why don't you pu...Anon.<br /><br />For heaven's sake! Why don't you put a name onto your post? Just a name, like Fred, or something? Far easier to refer to your post, if you do.<br /><br />Anyway, I normally regard myself as being reasonably astute, but I must admit that I did not see the implication of the statement from the coalition that the smoking ban would not be re-visited, means the 'raison d'etre' of ASH ET AL has ceased to exist. I like that thought very much.<br /><br />It is a pity that Pickles is not involved in the Health scenario as such, but, my God!, is he not giving a good example?!<br /><br />I have said again and again that the big gesture is to be expected (like putting up Vat), but, eventually, the only real effect that one can have on the future, is to remove the drain on the public finances of multiple SMALL drains. <br /><br />What has struck me in the recent past is how many publicly funded organisations which are supposed to be TEACHING or RESEARCH organisations are wasting their time and their funds on studies and surveys which are not part of their remit. We need only think of Cancer Research UK and The Royal College of Physicians. CRUK is supposed to be RESEARCHING and the RCP is supposed to be TEACHING. Why are their 'professors' wasting public money on studies and surveys about smoking?<br /><br />The STINK is exuding from the Health Dept - and that is true. Lansdale (is it Lansdale? - Health Sec) needs to get his finger out and chop a few heads off.Junicannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-38594009165907027712010-08-30T02:25:29.308+01:002010-08-30T02:25:29.308+01:00Cameron’s terse little eight-word statement: “We w...Cameron’s terse little eight-word statement: “We will not be re-visiting the smoking ban,” may have disappointed many smokers, but I have long suspected that it had a positively panic-inducing effect upon anti-smoking campaigners across the land, because it signalled the beginning of the end of the anti-smoking gravy-train - the funding, the kudos, the respect and the power. <br /><br />Everything I have heard or read since that day has had a slight air of wide-eyed desperation about it, which only seems to increase as time goes on. It’s months since I read or heard a smoking-related health story in the mainstream media. Even in the recent stories about the increase in oesophageal cancer (surely one which ASH and their friends would hitherto have leapt upon in joy as yet another “smoking-related illness”) smoking wasn't mentioned <i>at all</i> - although one of the Coalition’s new chums, Obesity, was. New smoking-related stories these days only ever seem to appear in medical journals or on on-line sites for medical professionals, i.e. they are now effectively reduced to “preaching to the converted,” because the rest of the world has grown fed up with the "same old same old," and simply isn’t listening any more.<br /><br />If the anti-smoking movement wasn’t run by such vile people I’d almost feel sorry to see such a once-powerful group now only able to attract attention from a very small, limited group of close cronies, who have in any case been singing from the same song sheet all along. As it is, each and every new sad, self-justifying little article these days raises a wry smile in me, rather than a sense of dread and foreboding as they have done in previous years. <br /><br />So, the latest tactic is yet another clearly-manipulated questionnaire, is it? Oh, how the mighty have fallen! Have they <i>really</i> not yet noticed that, quite simply, nobody is <i>interested</i> any more? <br /><br />And in any case, what makes them think that the Coalition who, like all Governments, have already made their minds up what they want to do and what they don't - will listen to this "opinion poll" any more than they have any intention of taking notice of any other No 10 petitions, opinion studies - or even their own "Your Freedom" website?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-7664415631112751782010-08-29T21:46:25.461+01:002010-08-29T21:46:25.461+01:00Is there anyway you can make this questionnaire av...Is there anyway you can make this questionnaire available to download. Perhaps if enough of your readers sent a completed copy back it could muck up their figures, or at the very least get them to spend a lot of time sorting the wheat from the chaff (so to speak). I'd also like to send a copy to my MP. Perhaps the Health Secretary would like to see of copy of what they're spending tax payers cash on?<br /><br />One other thing, how is this survey any different to what the British Film Foundation did in lobbying for its existance (a fat lot of good it's done them)?<br /><br />Thank you.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-57128181098081128242010-08-29T21:30:11.460+01:002010-08-29T21:30:11.460+01:00Unfortunately most of the quango cutting has been ...Unfortunately most of the quango cutting has been by the surprisingly effective Pickles. Lansley isn't being quite as ruthless so far so we're still waiting for good news here really.All Seeing Eyehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15671520010496394878noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-67869647651151873712010-08-29T21:00:27.581+01:002010-08-29T21:00:27.581+01:00Please let ASH know they are now beginning to upse...Please let ASH know they are now beginning to upset and annoy the <br />kind of people who are not given to<br />polite forms of complaint.<br />ASH does'nt figure high on the<br />blame list of bankrupt landlords.<br />broken club owners,out of work<br />doormen,unemployed bar staff,<br />skint entertainers and wet through<br />punters.That can easily be remedied<br /><br /><br />Upset,very upset.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-43788145344508786792010-08-29T20:48:04.239+01:002010-08-29T20:48:04.239+01:00Don't know went wrong there, here is the link ...Don't know went wrong there, here is the link I <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHei4OrwT2o&p=07453B80E349109A&playnext=1&index=22" rel="nofollow">wanted</a>.<br /><br />Sunday bloody Sunday eh.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10072165710888952465noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-23702930903242133602010-08-29T20:40:31.934+01:002010-08-29T20:40:31.934+01:00Yet another masterpiece of a post DP!Yet another masterpiece of a post DP!Witterings from Witneyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11349563961787006775noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-33834563587417033982010-08-29T20:37:24.644+01:002010-08-29T20:37:24.644+01:00Haven't even read the text yet but the headlin...Haven't even read the text yet but the headline takes me to this song by <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MN-YICwcQPk&p=07453B80E349109A&index=24&playnext=2" rel="nofollow">The Beatles</a>.<br /><br />Makes sense to me DP!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10072165710888952465noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-61621277372585628992010-08-29T20:25:43.114+01:002010-08-29T20:25:43.114+01:00Excellent, awesome. Question 1 would have been fun...Excellent, awesome. Question 1 would have been funny enough but the others were just icing on the cake.Mark Wadsworthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07733511175178098449noreply@blogger.com