The tobacco industry cares about you. No really, they really don’t want you to smoke. It’s true...

First they tried written warnings and these were pretty tough: ‘Smoking seriously harms you and others around you’…convincing, eh? Then they introduced picture warnings: images of rotting teeth and lungs, throat cancer, ageing skin, sperm damage. Much more frightening, a visual shock to the system, and yet you’re still smoking. Why is that?

Tobacco producers use all sorts of word tricks and delaying tactics, which encourage you to doubt the enormous health benefits of quitting smoking.

Trying to quit and want a helping hand?

To Hell With Tobacco takes a fresh approach. You’ve had the hard line, over simplistic, in your face message and, maybe, you’re half way to that final puff. So why not stub it out entirely with some intellectual ammunition?

For example, what do Bob Dylan, Godzilla, Jonathan Miller, and hot dinners have in common?
The answer’s inside >>

About the author

I hate smoking. I don’t hate smokers, I just want to help those unfortunate enough to have become snared in the tobacco industry’s web; it’s bigger than you think, but not worth your life.

I am a lexicographer who has been on the Editorial Staff of The Concise Oxford Dictionary (1995), and The Pocket Oxford Dictionary (1992), and I’ve contributed 650 changes to these works; I wish to share my knowledge of word tricks and rhyming associations to elucidate how the tobacco 'con' goes on.

Dive into these words, have some fun, and breathe freely and who knows...

FACT

Smoking is the biggest killer in England.

Smoking caused the premature death of over 87,000 people each year in England alone.

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