Posts tagged: Satirist Auberon Waugh

Book review: The Cigarette Book. By Chris Harrald and Fletcher Watkins.

Satirist Auberon Waugh argued that smokers are heroes because they die young and don’t clutter up hospitals, put a terrible strain on their children, or spend everything they have on nursing home fees. The late great Waugh is quoted in The Cigarette Book as suggesting that “passive smoking” is no more a danger to health than “passive hamburgers” or computer games. Here at last is a book by Camden authors Chris Harrald and Fletcher Watk ... Jump to full article >>