Tag: risk

Now I’ve Seen Everything


For years, the tobacco industry spent millions advertising their products. Slowly, but surely, the world has woken up to the negative effects of smoking.

For almost as long as there have been cigarettes, there have been industries devoted to countering their addictive nature.

In more recent times, people have turned to vapes as the “healthy” alternative to cigarettes.

At the forefront of those trying to ween folks off the demon tobacco in the UK is Nicorette.

Earlier today, I visited my local pharmacy. Imagine my surprise when I spotted a large poster by Nicorette offering help to stop vaping ?

So vaping was seen as the safe / healthy alternative to smoking tobacco based cigarettes. 

Already, there have been articles in the press suggesting that vaping is not actually all that healthy, and with deaths being directly attributed to vape usage.

Now, the Nicorette poster is suggesting that vaping is also addictive, habit forming.

What’s next, a cure for Nicorette addiction ?

Mad, Stupid, Couldn’t Care Less – You Decide


My neighbour has just had a visitor who turned up in a van, a skanky old sherpa. They apparently arrived to pick up some stuff. This van only has two seats at the front. One for the driver and one for a passenger who in this case was a baby in a baby seat.

All good so far.

As the van was reversed off the drive I noticed movement between the two seats. Up pops a young child, probably no more than five or six. These vans do not typically have a row of seats behind the driver. Even if they do this child was quite obviously not secured and therefore at risk.

There is so much publicity in all media warning of the dangers of not using safety belts and in particular securing your children. So I ask again, assuming that the driver is the father……

Is He Mad, Stupid or is it that he Just Couldn’t Care Less