Smoking

A man who used to be the lead singer of a group that got to the top of the Britiish charts a number of times - Terry Hall of "The Specials" - is an unrepentant smoker and here he speaks out against the vociferous majority that are dropdown "I think you should be able to smoke everywhere in: dropdown Why can't you smoke over people's salads? It's fantastic. dropdown it'd be, like, do they really want to be my friend? I might have to put up with things they say or the way they eat. What's passive smoking? dropdown Like passive listening to shitheads. I have to put up with that every day. Are you going to ban people from talking crap? They give me a headache. Believe me, they're killing me. One day people's dropdown "I started smoking when I was 12. dropdown Maybe I wouldn't be doing it now dropdown I've tried smoking herbal cigarettes but dropdown "My wife has never had a cigarette, but she knows that if I stop dropdown I also get eczema all over my hands. My wife bothers about breath smells, which is OK, but it doesn't worry me. I've got a dropdown But if your're really worried, eat mints or don't talk to anybody. "Last Christmas I went to see my dad and he looked really ill. dropdown - both my parents were - and the doctors said it was lung cancer and that he only had a month left. After a couple of weeks they let him home for a bit. He told me dropdown but he didn't miss them because he was happy with the 71 he'd had. It's a good way of looking at things. He died in May.