Life, death, sex and cigarettes ...
Sunday, March 8, 2009 Artist Maggi Hambling has a regular column in the Sunday Times Magazine. Today she talks about smoking.
"I used not to trust people who didn't smoke. Apart from a few notable exceptions, I still prefer people who do. It is so alarmingly arrogant not to need that reassuring little mate who, constant and faithful, allows you time to think. Not to mention affording you a great deal of what is more or less illegal nowadays: pleasure ...
Five years ago, unable to attend a press conference to launch Forest's "Fight the ban: fight for choice" campaign, Hambling nevertheless found time to send us the following message:
"I wholeheartedly support the campaign against a ban on smoking in public places. Just because I gave up at 59, other people may choose not to. There must be freedom of choice, something that is fast disappearing in this so-called free country."
Today, she writes:
"I still smoke copiously at funerals, three in each hand, even more at weddings, and very occasionally at other disasters.
"I refuse to be photographed without a (false) cigarettes to maintain solidarity with smokers. Often people only look at the picture, so the point is made."
Full article HERE.
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