Posts Tagged ‘smoking’
Ron Rosenbaum: Leave Obama (the Smoker) Alone!
I'm not one for fellating fellow journalists, but I'd make a knee-bruising exception for Slate's Ron Rosenbaum, the first big-name journalist (who's not a card-carrying libertarian) to stick up for President-elect Barack Obama's nicotine addiction.
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Video: Watch John Waters Smoke
Due to a nasty cold that I suspect is very slowly mutating into a lower respiratory tract infection, I haven't had a cigarette since Thursday of last week. In the interim, I've been thinking about smoking, and watching movies in which people smoke, and walking out to City Paper's parking deck, where I purse my lips and inhale, hold it, and then breathe a slow, hot breath and watch it take shape in the cold. If this congestion lasts much longer, I'll have come out the other side of this two-week flu with a quitting mechanism--vicarious smoking.
The Smelly Side of Smoke-Free Bars
According to a study conducted by "world-renowned scent scientist Alan Hirsch, M.D.," founder of Chicago's Smell & Taste Treatment and Research Foundation, banning cigarettes from bars has resulted in people smelling things other than cigarettes in bars. The study, which investigated the odors inside one smoke-free Chicago bar, was sponsored by the folks over at AXE deodorant body spray. According to AXE:
Through a series of scientific tests at a popular Chicago bar, Dr. Hirsch discovered that while the odor of cigarette smoke is gone, equally offensive aromas that were previously hidden have surfaced---and bar patrons were a major cause of the stink, with sweat appearing as one of the top odor contributors to the “bar funk.” While these tests were conducted in only one bar, the results could shed light on why other smoke-free establishments are also experiencing “bar funk.”
The study concluded that "sweat/body odor" was the fourth odor contribution to the scientific state of "bar funk" at that one bar, after "must/earth/mold," "urine-like," and "sour/acid vinegar." Hmm. Did they test for the odor contribution of AXE deodorant body spray?
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