Monday
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Cigarette and whisky
Monday, October 25, 2010 
Great interview with Forest supporter Jenty Burrill on BBC Radio Kent this morning.
We were asked to provide a smoker who enjoys smoking and has no intention of giving up. Endearingly honest about her health, Jenty, 71, fitted the bill perfectly. Sample quote:
"I hope to die with a cigarette in one hand and a glass of whisky in the other."
Cue laughter from presenter Julia George (an ex-smoker), who added, "Jenty, you're fabulous!".
Click HERE to listen to the four-minute interview. It begins around 1:05:00 minutes in. If I had time to transcribe the whole thing I would.
Update on Monday, October 25, 2010 by
Simon Clark
Simon Clark
Click HERE to read a transcript of Jenty on Breakfast With Frost, April 4, 2004. Note the contribution by the then Health Secretary John Reid towards the end.
Reader Comments (6)
Great interview...thanks Simon.
I thoroughly enjoyed it. Jenty was quite unabashed about enjoying her smoking...and quite right too.
We may well thank Nick Clegg a lot more than we give him credit for as he has ignited a debate about the joys of smoking. When Clegg is waxing lyrically about being on a desert island and his joy as the sun sets is a smoke, no amount of finger wagging from the nannies is going to take it away.
Some Liberal Democrats are beginning to grow on me including Jeremy Browne who is a Foreign and Commonwealth Minister who spoke tonight at an event tonight I was at.
Yes - a sensible person and quite straight forward. It is just a pity that she said that she thought that her lungs would not have been a problem had she not smoked. She should have said that she had no idea whether they would or would not - which is the truth. But, I suppose, words slip out......
At least the BBC have started giving people a chance to give their views rather than just repeating the mantra.
I'm sure Dave A will have the figures: but in that interview Frosty said that the smoking rate in the UK has dropped, over what time frame - and haven't I read that smoking rates are up since the ban. Frosty's figures there are meaningless anyway as there's no time scale - down 2 percent since WW2 perhaps?
@Mark B
Smoking reached its peak in 1948 when 66% of the adult population smoked, falling to 45% in 1970 an in 2007 then to 22%. It has now risen to 22.5% since nanny got her rolling pin out.
Dave, thanks. The numbers quoted in that interview are not only meaningless - but totally wrong.