Tonight's television ...
Tuesday, March 23, 2010 Just to remind you that I am on The One Show (BBC1) tonight between 7.00 and 7.30pm. The filmed report also features Forest patron Antony Worrall Thompson and Duncan Bannatyne, president (!) of No Smoking Day.
A few minutes ago one of the production team rang and said "You definitely got your point across". Why, then, do I feel so nervous?
Sophie Dahl, a former smoker, is tonight's special guest. Or, as The One Show website puts it, "Sophie Dahl joins Adrian and Christine to talk about her new TV cookery show."
I may not be in the studio tonight but at least I can tell my grandchildren we appeared on the same programme.
Simon Clark
You've got to laugh - or cry. The best part of a morning including 20 minutes' filming reduced to a 15-second soundbite.
All credit to Sophie Dahl who clearly didn't feel comfortable with the tone of the studio "discussion", wasn't shy to say that she used to smoke, and even uttered the words "civil rights".
Well, somebody had to. What a farce.
Reader Comments (4)
Lets look at the "facts" Chiles came out with.
Smoking gone down- nope static or increased.
Health benefits from less passive smoking- no ncrease in heart attacks.
Cot deaths - entiley unproven.
Home smoking - gone up, see Dr. Patrick Basham's paper.
Smoking while driving - responsible for 0.1% of accidents, by comparison one passenger increases accidents by 18%.
Lung cancer in children - 34 papers published, 3 show a raised risk, 11 show a protective effect, 20 are staistically insignificant.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/complaints/forms/?id=PCUIARNLLUTTAF2UEPL4O3LNNG
l blinked and missed it ... all l got was that idiot Mark going on how smoking should be banned in cars because you drive one-handed!
That's it then, no manual shift cars, no indicators blah blah blah ... then the usual drivel.
To be truthful thats all l expected of Pravda ... they didn't disappoint.
Smoking "has" now become a civil rights issue.
Very much so.
Time to get angry.
I love the way it slid from 'no smoking in cars with children b/c of the health "risks"' to 'no smoking in cars b/c of the dangers from one-handed driving'. Smart, VERY smart. Bloke can't even speak English. 'have one less hand to drive with' UGH, Illiterate fucktard.