Bizet’s Carmen is the perfect vehicle for Welsh National Opera’s first-rate chorus and orchestra, and both still emerge strongly in Patrice Caurier and Moshe Leiser’s 13-year-old staging. The dark and edgy mood certainly creates atmosphere, but the hot, claustrophobic working conditions endured by the army personnel and the women of the cigarette factory are never quite convincing at the Millennium Centre (the production was conceived for the more intimate New Theatre). Too much action sprawls upstage and the long stretches of French dialogue don’t help, even with surtitles. ... read more >>
Ex-Winston Cigarette Pitchman Joins the InLife Team to Help Bring Awareness to the Benefits of the Electronic Cigarette 1
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March 3rd, 2010
x-Winston cigarette pitchman-turned-advocate for inLife electronic cigarettes David Goerlitz, is baffled as to why governmental and private health advocacy groups, which are tasked with guarding the public against tobacco product harm and promoting medical advancements, are not supporting the electronic cigarette as a logical and safer alternative for American smokers. ... read more >>
How Much Money Are You Spending on Cigarettes?
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March 3rd, 2010
Smoking does more than hurt your health; it does a number on your wallet, as well. A pack of cigarettes now costs more than $5 on average—with some states tacking on additional taxes that raise the price even more. In New York City, local taxes have pushed the cost of a pack to about $10. ... read more >>
A cigar isn’t always just a cigar
Re: “Our champions deserve a little fun”. Maybe you’re right to term Hockey Canada’s apology “fatuous,” and it might seem churlish to criticize a celebration, but, cigars? Imagine that Canada’s women’s hockey squad passed around a joint at centre ice, just to show a little joyful camaraderie. Sure, it’s not legal, but all the kids do it, right? ... read more >>
Will James Cameron tell us the truth about Hiroshima?
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March 3rd, 2010
A project on the bombing of Hiroshima that could have been James Cameron’s next Oscar-winning blockbuster has had to be canned. The director responsible for the world’s biggest box-office hit and multi Oscar contender, Avatar, had bought the rights to a book on the atomic bombing of the Japanese city. But any plans he harboured of making an historic drama to match Titanic using Charles Pellegrino’s The Last Train From Hiroshima have bitten the dust. ... read more >>
Planned greening law threatens to uproot tobacco growers
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March 3rd, 2010
Use of wood to cure tobacco is causing an environmental crisis in tobacco growing areas of Migori, Kuria, Uriri and Rongo districts even as a new law pushes afforestation programmes to farmers. Under the Forestry Act set to come in force in May, farmers are required to put a tenth of their farms under trees but the requirement may not be enforceable as farm sizes become increasingly smaller due to subdivision. ... read more >>
‘Gorillaz took my mind to the second dimension’
I awoke washed up on Plastic Beach, Point Nemo, the epicentre of Antarctic inaccessibility. I needed some dope. Murdoc, the master of meddle, stood above me. “Try this. It’s pure Pan’s pasta, Noodle’s nectar. It’s alive. It can’t be boshed. Experience the colour of the Big Bong.” ... read more >>
Cannabis use in under 15s linked to psychosis
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March 3rd, 2010
Using cannabis for the first time under the age of 15 is linked to an increased risk of hallucinations or delusions, a new study has found. However, the findings are still not definite. ... read more >>
War movies and the Oscars: It’s always hell
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March 2nd, 2010
If “The Hurt Locker” wins the Oscar for best picture Sunday night — and at this stage, the race is really down to either “Avatar” or the Kathryn Bigelow-directed film about bomb disposal experts in Iraq — it will be the first war film to earn the academy’s top honor in nearly 25 years. In the past 40 years, only three bona fide war films have won the top Oscar — 1970’s “Patton,” 1978’s “The Deer Hunter” and 1986’s “Platoon.” ... read more >>
Smoking Shortens Your Life Span
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March 2nd, 2010
The next time you’re tempted to light up, remember this: Every cigarette you smoke reduces your expected life span by 11 minutes, according to researchers at the University of Bristol in England. That means that 10 cigarettes a day for 10 years takes more than nine months off your life. ... read more >>
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