Smoker's Corner
posted by Ham at 00:51 --
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A London photo every day. Some pictures will be there for their own sake, some because they are places you may like to see, all because they are part of what makes London what it is. Requests welcome!
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post a commentI guess I'm a pariah. Harsh.
The propaganda machine has done it's job fabulously..."smokers are demons"!
Mostly young women, I see (same here). The largest group takign up smoking in this country.
Do I detect that this lot work in some branch of the health services?
I did not on my last February visit to London that it is easier to be a year-round adict in a warm climate.
I like that (Dilbert one) too!
Fantastic! And why SHOULDN'T we have an eargarette break? lol great idea. In fact, i think i need one now... ah that's better. Great shot Ham, where was it and do they know they are demon-weed-famous now?
susan - demon weed is an english idiom for tobacco
sally - I think this bunch are probably beauty related
lynn - Covent garden. Worth a laugh to tell you how I got this one. Walking down the road talking on the phone on a work related call, saw these girls, shimmied across the road, whipped out the trusty A640 and fired off a few shots single handed. No, I'm sure they didn't notice otherwise they would be laughing their heads off.
They are nurses and they smoke ? That's a pity... Nice picture anyway
Wow one-handed photography now! How intrepid you are and exciting your life must be Ham, i love it! Striding through the streets of London lifting your camera from beneath your overcoat (steady; watch for policemen, with that sort of behaviour) to capture the lives of many for us mere mortals who ... also stride through our towns lifting our cameras but perhaps not quite so stylishly.
It's a great shot considering your mind was on other things at the time. No not that, work i meant! I DID. WHA..t?
Pariah? Still harsh.
dislike the smoker, but this is a beautiful photo!
jing
www.shanghaidailyphoto.com
smoking is a choice... Just like strapping on a latex costume and walking arround town with your dom/sub is a choice. And so one should not be marginalised for it. Just like some of us should not be marginalised for the fact that we don't look as good as some of the people in this picture.
Incidentally, should you have the missfortune of hanging arround the ICU of a hospital for a few days, you just might find yourself taking up smoking.
In any case, doing damage to their respective bodies is their right. Where this not the case, McDonalds would be banned - no?
I think we are in sync, Ham. Smoking...was that a theme of the day? My latest post would support that...
It saddens me to see vibrant, young women smoking. We need to protect ourselves and keep the next generation safe from day one... I know some may choose not to bring a baby into the world, but if they do, the poor baby gets a bad start. That's probably the furthest from their minds at this point, but some day.... will they wish they had not started?
Good shot, Ham. We're being seeing more smokers in the streets with the arrival of the ban in June.
Anonymous - you're right smoking is a choice and to an extent I agree that if people want to go ahead and damage their own health that's nothing to do with me. However, people who smoke also choose to damage my health - that I actively disagree with.
Try we'll for we're in the second sentence there! (It's been a long day).
Finished working through your backlog of great pics, Ham! Recommend doing that to all, there's lots to see.
I'm 100% behind ems here... anyone who wnats to kill themselves with alcohol, cigarettes, drugs, fine by me - as long as it doesn't impinge on my freedoms. Especially my freedom to live and breathe.
As far as "pariah" goes, I tell it like I see it. You want to light up most places these days, you have to cast yourself out. Like this.
What really gets me are people moaning about women breastfeeding in public while lighting up a cigarette.
Lynn - lol!
Great shot. I was going to ask where it was taken, but I see Lynn beat me to the punch.
I just started my own Daily Photo Blog, Please feel welcome to drop by. I added your site to my links.
I love London.
lol Ham absolutely on the breastfeeding thing! I recall - longer than i'm prepared to admit - being frowned upon, for merely snuggling my darling babes discreetly under my sweater to keep them alive and well, by these idiots who, often, were standing around me puffing and killing themselves and others. Grr.
A sight I often see is young mums with kids in pushchairs leaning over to adjust something leaving a cigarette poking from their mouth so that the ash falls on the baby!
Absolutely, Gerald, how ridiculously unthinking and uncaring is that.