The Telegraph’s own Guy Kelly and Christopher Howse, both deft wordsmiths and of very different generations, are here to conduct a weekly study of modern life.
What they like, hate, fight over and agree on may surprise you. This week, they consider our ongoing love affair with tobacco. - Guy KellyIf the Government is honest with itself, it would admit the real issue with smoking is that it remains cool.
Lung cancer? Emphysema? The indignity of having to use those little glass cuboids of shame in airport terminals? Not very cool.
In fact, all distinctly uncool, if you ask me. But someone smoking a cigarette will still look far more chic than someone who is not, as long as they’re not delivering a baby at the time, or manning the till in a shop that sells only turpentine and kindling.Just think back to last September, when Angela Rayner was papped at the Labour Party conference in Brighton, lit Vogue Slim in hand, staring broodingly down the lens.
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