Public Health England believes smoking will be ‘eradicated’ by 2030. Not everybody will be celebrating
Cigarettes are a biker-capped Marlon Brando, Berlin-era David Bowie, Winona Ryder bomb-blasted at the finale of Heathers. They are the accompaniment to Otis Redding’s coffee, three of them sit in Patsy Cline’s ashtray, they are Oscar Wilde’s perfect type of a perfect pleasure. Cigarettes are also Nigel Farage, white-boxed health warnings on opaque couché, and the death of a friend’s much-loved father.
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