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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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  • Abbé Breuil, smoking a cigarette. Photograph.
  • A skeleton (representing Death), smoking a cigarette and offering a cigarette from a pack; implying that smoking causes death. Screen print (?), 19--.
  • A skeleton (representing Death), smoking a cigarette and offering a cigarette from a pack; implying that smoking causes death. Screen print (?), 19--.
  • Malcolm Scott, smoking a cigarette. Photographic postcard by J.G. Capstaff, 191-.
  • Malcolm Scott, smoking a cigarette. Photographic postcard by J.G. Capstaff, 191-.
  • A young person walking blindfold along a cigarette propped up precariously by another cigarette, and about to tread on the ash and fall; representing the dangers of smoking. Colour lithograph by A. Munt︠︡ian, 1985/1986.
  • A young woman smiling because she has quit cigarette smoking. Colour lithograph, ca. 2000.
  • One man is smoking a pipe and another is smoking a cigarette. Coloured etching.
  • World War I: three soldiers, one lighting his cigarette from another's. Colour process print, 19--.
  • World War I: three soldiers, one lighting his cigarette from another's. Colour process print, 19--.
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