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Smoking and the pleasure principle

Cigarettes gifted ex-smoker David Jesudason coughing, wheezing and fatigue, yet they also gave him pleasure. Here he unpicks his fluctuating attitudes towards lighting up.

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Inhaling happiness and gasping for a high

The rapid, short-lived high we get from whippets, reefers and vapes can be accompanied by long-term health consequences. The search is on for safer ways to get stoned.

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Thalidomide survivors in the 21st century

As thalidomide survivors enter their 60s, they look back on their lives and the legacy of the thalidomide catastrophe.

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Booze and bad behaviour

Our love of alcohol is like a party that’s lasted nine centuries. But there are signs that the demon drink is losing its appeal.

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  • Cigarettes Antiasthmatiques Daturol: product label. Colour lithograph.
  • Liberal value : 2 more cigarettes for your 6d. ... 'Plus Two' cigarettes, 12 for 6d.
  • Three actors, one in drag, pose lighting cigarettes.
  • Three actors, one in drag, pose lighting cigarettes.
  • Nine rectangles containing a diminishing number of cigarettes, the last rectangle having none; representing gradual cessation from smoking cigarettes. Colour lithograph after I.M. Maĭstrovskiĭ, 1983.
  • Player's Navy Cut cigarettes : "medium" / John Player & Sons.
  • Player's Navy Cut cigarettes : "medium" / John Player & Sons.
  • Two boys posing with cigarettes. Photographic postcard by A. Caggiano, 190-.
  • Two boys posing with cigarettes. Photographic postcard by A. Caggiano, 190-.
  • A man smoking, with silver coins representing the expense of buying cigarettes. Colour lithograph after Reginald Mount, October 1965.
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