X-Nico

2 unusual facts about ''Smoking''/''No Smoking''


Intimate Exchanges

Alain Resnais made two French films in 1993, called Smoking/No Smoking, to reflect Celia Teasdale's initial choice of whether or not to smoke a cigarette.

In 1993, six of the eight major variations were made into the two films Smoking/No Smoking directed by Alain Resnais.


Bioresonance therapy

Ben Goldacre ridiculed the BBC when it reported as fact a clinic's claim that the treatment had the ability to stop 70% of clients smoking, a better result than any conventional therapy.

Bupropion

According to a 2007 Cochrane Database review, there have been four suicides per one million prescriptions and one case of suicidal ideation per ten thousand prescriptions of bupropion for smoking cessation in the UK.

Cat Doss

Doss' career began in acting on series such as Smoking and Disaster Date, before moving on to a smaller role on Project X.

Daniel Silver

Recent solo exhibitions include Museo Carlo Zauli, Faenza, Italy (2012); Acne Studios, London (2011); Coming Together, Kunsthaus Glarus, Switzerland (2011); The Smoking Silver Father Figures, Frieze Art Fair Sculpture Park, London (2010).

Essential fatty acid interactions

Next, in response to many inflammatory stimuli, such as air pollution, smoking, second-hand smoke, vegetables oils and other exogenous toxins; phospholipase is generated and cleaves this phospholipid, releasing AA as a free fatty acid.

Flowers on the Wall

Bruce Willis's character sings along to the line, "smoking cigarettes and watching Captain Kangaroo."

FOREST

While opposing proposals to restrict smoking in public places, FOREST attracted the support of celebrity smokers including artist David Hockney, inventor Trevor Baylis, musician Joe Jackson, chef Antony Worrall Thompson, and social commentator Claire Fox.

Frances Cress Welsing

She presents an extensive interpretation of broad categories of symbolic objects: guns and weapons, Christ and the Holy Cross, ball games, boxing, smoking objects, paper money and gold.

Geek Stink Breath

(Oral problems are associated with meth use, but are actually related to poor hygiene, exacerbated by dry mouth, both of which are associated with illicit use of some drugs, rather than being directly related to the effect of smoking or otherwise ingesting methamphetamine.)

Get Fired

The Smoking Popes re-recorded the songs "Let's Hear It for Love" and "Can't Find It" for their 1997 album Destination Failure.

Hoyo de Monterrey

Red Auerbach was famous for smoking a Hoyo de Monterrey "victory cigar" before the end of basketball games of the Boston Celtics, the NBA team he worked for as a coach and executive from 1950 to 1997 and again from 2001 until his death in 2006.

Indian tobacco

Kinnikinnick, a smoking product made of mixture of leaves and bark

Josh Caterer

In November 2005 the Smoking Popes reunited for a sell-out show at the Chicago club The Metro.

La Mano Ajena

In January, 2009, they became the first and only Latin American band to participate in the Küstendorf Film and Music Festival in Serbia, created by the twice Palm d’Or winner in Cannes and world famous filmmaker Emir Kusturica, whose band The No Smoking Orchestra is the main and most important reference concerning Balkan and Gypsy music in the world.

Lapsang souchong

It was Sir Winston Churchill's preferred tea, a habit which he acquired together with cigar smoking early in his military career while in Cuba, and always brought him a reminder of his campaign days of youth.

Law enforcement in Hong Kong

Minor duties such as hawkers' regulation and anti-smoking are nevertheless assumed by officers of other government departments, including the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department, the Leisure and Cultural Services Department and the Housing Department.

Lenore Kandel

Kandel appears in the Kenneth Anger film Invocation of My Demon Brother (1969), smoking a marijuana cigarette contained in a miniature skull.

Maggi Hambling

Hambling gave up smoking in 2004 and was involved in the campaign against the total ban on smoking in public places in England which took effect on 1 July 2007.

Marihuana Tax Act of 1937

The head of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics (FBN), Harry J. Anslinger, argued that, in the 1930s, the FBN had noticed an increase of reports of people smoking marijuana.

McGill EMF Conference

They knew that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was threatening to regulate workplace smoking as a carcinogenic pollutant in the ambient air—and therefore that their old standby claims that the 'smoker made the choice to smoke or not'... that smoking was a personal choice... would no longer excuse the damage to health.

Mobile weapons laboratory

MP Geoff Hoon - I do not think that anyone suggested that this was an example of a smoking gun.

Nicoderm

NicoDerm, also known as NicoDerm CQ (short for Committed Quit or Committed Quitter) is a branded over the counter palliative nicotine replacement therapy used to minimize the withdrawal effects involved in quitting smoking.

Noise Fest

This included the music of John Rehnberger, Off Beach, Ut, Lee Ranaldo, Mofungo, Khmer Rouge, The Problem, Smoking Section, Sonic Youth, Jeff Lohn, Ima, Jules Baptiste Red Decade, EQ'D, Avant Squares, Don King, Primivites, Ad Hoc Rock, Y Pants, Barbotemagus (as it is spelled on the cover), Economical Animal, Chinese Puzzle, Glorious Strangers, Built On Guilt, Fakir, Lampshades.

Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust

Three patients at the Rampton Hospital brought a case arguing that their human rights were violated by the smoking ban as the Rampton was essentially their home and the ban was incompatible with Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights.

Paul P. Hastings

His mother was the former Rosetta Butler, who was active in the temperance and anti-smoking movements.

Phil Seaman

Although some people suggested that he became a fabulous unicorn seller, particularly intrested in 10x winning universal unicorn racing champion Starshine Sparkle, although some argue he is smoking with 2Pac in Cuba, he is also to have been rumored to be Taher Shah, a Pakistani Singer known for his hit single 'Eye to Eye'.

Quisapincha

From Quisapincha, there are excellent views of the Andes, including the smoking Tungurahua volcano and the valley in which Ambato sits.

Ramadan

In Kuwait, according to law number 44 of 1968 the penalty is a fine of no more than 100 Kuwaiti dinars, or jail for no more than one month, or both penalties, for those seen eating, drinking or smoking during Ramadan daytime.

Régine Zylberberg

A feisty and outspoken person by nature, in 1996 Régine and her son were arrested for refusing to comply with crew requests and smoking on an American Airlines flight.

Regulation of tobacco by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration

In 1964, Surgeon General Luther Terry issued a report on smoking and health saying that tobacco causes lung cancer and is a main contributor to bronchitis.

Sex and drugs

Tobacco use (e.g., cigarette smoking), also reduces sexual function, with the incidence of impotence being approximately eighty-five percent higher in male smokers compared to non-smokers.

Silk Cut

Production company Gallaher held a Royal Warrant of Appointment for 122 years, until the warrant was revoked in 1999 by Queen Elizabeth II; the Prince of Wales' rigorous anti-smoking campaigning is thought to be a major influence on that decision.

Smoked cheese

The cold-smoking method (which can take up to a month, depending on the food) smokes the food at between 20° to 30° C.

Smokeless

Smokeless tobacco, tobacco that is used by means other than smoking

Smoking bans in private vehicles

The Senator and Oncologist John Crown has put bill before parliament to ban smoking in a car with children.

Smoking in France

In May 2013 Marisol Touraine, France's Health Minister, announced that the ban on smoking in public places would also be extended to electronic cigarettes as they could encourage "mimicking" behavior, potentially leading persons into smoking actual cigarettes.

Stanley Bolander

It is generally agreed that Bolander is based on the Homicide book's cigar-smoking detective Donald Worden, though Worden was not paired with Jay Landsman, the sergeant on whom John Munch was based.

T. B. Joshua

Popular Nigerian Actress Tonto Dikeh testified that Joshua’s prayers on Emmanuel TV stopped her smoking habit of 14 years.

Ten Stories About Smoking

Ten Stories About Smoking is the debut short story collection by writer Stuart Evers.

The Best of C-Bo

# "Smoking Bomb" (featuring Marvaless & Rup Dog) - 3:27 (from the album Ghetto Blues)

The Bribe

In the book Cult Movies by Karl French and Philip French, they write, "In classic noir style, the chain smoking Rigby (he has no Christian name) tells most of the story in flashbacks that begin as visions he sees on the rain-lashed window of his hotel room.

The Lady in the Bottle

He says goodbye, and heads for home; but he doesn't see that the girl, smoking inside her bottle, rolls it into his duffel bag and returns to Cocoa Beach, Florida with him.

The Portrait Now

Varied subjects included self-portraits: Koons, Beltrami, Neel, Penck, less known figures and some famous names: Joseph Beuys by Warhol, Marlene Dietrich by Finer, President Mitterrand by Organ, Archbishop Desmond Tutu by Marisol, Seamus Heaney by Edwards, and 'The Smoking Man' a video portrait by Marty St.James.

Tobacco harm reduction

In October 2008 the American Association of Public Health Physicians (AAPHP) became the first medical organization in the U.S. to officially endorse tobacco harm reduction as a viable strategy to reduce the death toll related to cigarette smoking.

Vanessa Lane

Lane's mainstream work includes an appearance in an episode of Dr. 90210 wherein Dr. Robert Rey refused to perform any surgical procedures on her breasts due to her smoking habit.

Who Needs the Peace Corps?

The lyrics of "Who Needs the Peace Corps?" mock hippies and people who follow the hippie fashion (such as wearing beads, leather bands and long hair, or "smoking dope") without caring about the social reflections and political views of the concept.

William Boyer

Sony and Tasty Pixels Production "Phreakers" The BBC's "No Smoking" 20th Century Fox - Black Knight (2001) starring Martin Lawrence And most recently Miramax's Cold Mountain (2003).

WLSG

The format included news, sports and games as well as music by James Taylor, Mariah Carey, The Muppets, Ren and Stimpy, Gloria Estefan, Animaniacs, Craig and Company, Smoking Armadillos, Fun Factory and Better Than Ezra.


see also