http://dramaticmedicine.com/2009/01/15/inhaling-second-and-feeling-fourteen/ How the Arts Heal Tue, 07 Feb 2012 18:40:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://dramaticmedicine.com/2009/01/15/inhaling-second-and-feeling-fourteen/#comment-516 Wed, 21 Jan 2009 13:54:26 +0000 http://dramed.wordpress.com/2009/01/15/inhaling-second-and-feeling-fourteen/#comment-516 That’s an excellent website, Gordon! It makes a strong case!

]]> http://dramaticmedicine.com/2009/01/15/inhaling-second-and-feeling-fourteen/#comment-515 Wed, 21 Jan 2009 13:32:51 +0000 http://dramed.wordpress.com/2009/01/15/inhaling-second-and-feeling-fourteen/#comment-515 http://www.itpaystoquit.com/celebrities.html
So many celebrities.

]]> http://dramaticmedicine.com/2009/01/15/inhaling-second-and-feeling-fourteen/#comment-514 Sun, 18 Jan 2009 19:12:25 +0000 http://dramed.wordpress.com/2009/01/15/inhaling-second-and-feeling-fourteen/#comment-514 Oh, what terrible news, Katha! Is there any effort to wholly outlaw smoking or at least make it a harder habit to keep and afford?

]]> http://dramaticmedicine.com/2009/01/15/inhaling-second-and-feeling-fourteen/#comment-513 Sun, 18 Jan 2009 16:36:34 +0000 http://dramed.wordpress.com/2009/01/15/inhaling-second-and-feeling-fourteen/#comment-513 Hi David,
Couldn’t find the data for cancer for passive smoking but the following is quite frightening:
http://www.pharm-olam.com/pdfs/Cancer%20in%20India.pdf
Men in Bhopal, MP have the highest cancer tongue cancer rate in the world, where as women in Bangalore have oesophagus cancer in the world.

]]> http://dramaticmedicine.com/2009/01/15/inhaling-second-and-feeling-fourteen/#comment-512 Sat, 17 Jan 2009 14:11:40 +0000 http://dramed.wordpress.com/2009/01/15/inhaling-second-and-feeling-fourteen/#comment-512 Katha!
Do you have any information on the rates of lung cancer in India when it comes to second hand smoke?

]]> http://dramaticmedicine.com/2009/01/15/inhaling-second-and-feeling-fourteen/#comment-511 Sat, 17 Jan 2009 08:06:18 +0000 http://dramed.wordpress.com/2009/01/15/inhaling-second-and-feeling-fourteen/#comment-511 We have a long way to go about in India. All most all the public places are no-smoking now, but people smoke at home…

]]> http://dramaticmedicine.com/2009/01/15/inhaling-second-and-feeling-fourteen/#comment-510 Fri, 16 Jan 2009 22:21:15 +0000 http://dramed.wordpress.com/2009/01/15/inhaling-second-and-feeling-fourteen/#comment-510 It’s just disappointing, Nicola, that nicotine is more important than friendship and community.
Love the Obama article! What a beautiful story. The images are so delightful!

]]> http://dramaticmedicine.com/2009/01/15/inhaling-second-and-feeling-fourteen/#comment-509 Fri, 16 Jan 2009 21:59:47 +0000 http://dramed.wordpress.com/2009/01/15/inhaling-second-and-feeling-fourteen/#comment-509 Men had the pubs and their alcohol and nicotine – women had their bingo halls their tea and their nicotine.
On the topical note of Bingo – and Obama
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1117323/Obamas-British-stepmother-gets-star-treatment-flies-big-day.html

]]> http://dramaticmedicine.com/2009/01/15/inhaling-second-and-feeling-fourteen/#comment-508 Fri, 16 Jan 2009 18:51:37 +0000 http://dramed.wordpress.com/2009/01/15/inhaling-second-and-feeling-fourteen/#comment-508 That’s an interesting read, Nicola, thanks. In the USA, bingo halls are usually housed in churches and serve as a means of raising revenue and sustaining community.
It’s too bad that smoking is so important to that generation that they’d give up the opportunity to go out and be with friends — that’s powerful testimony to the real destruction of tar and nicotine beyond the physical body.

]]> http://dramaticmedicine.com/2009/01/15/inhaling-second-and-feeling-fourteen/#comment-507 Fri, 16 Jan 2009 17:58:24 +0000 http://dramed.wordpress.com/2009/01/15/inhaling-second-and-feeling-fourteen/#comment-507 Bingo halls in a lot of communities were a hang over from the post war era – they were often the meeting ground of the elderly/retired working class and used by a generation of people who meet their friends in the warm, have a cup of tea, have a smoke and a game of bingo. They have been doing it for the last 40 years. For many it was the one time in the week they got out of their houses. Bingo halls have been unofficial social centers for a generation of people. Bingo halls were a lot more women friendly than the local pub – no so alcohol fueled and a safe haven.
When a bingo club closes, former patrons can feel isolated and alone, and some even cease to leave their homes altogether.
This report might give you some idea of the issues involved.
http://www.rank.com/pdf/lobbying/Social+Impact+of+Bingo+Closures+Report+04.09.07+FINAL1.pdf

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