It's National No Smoking Day today. As I'm sure you are all aware...

I've never understood the fascination with smoking in the same way I've never grasped the concept of inebriation. If anything I understand it less, I've never watched anybody drag back and fill their lungs with the remnants of what is essentially a scaled down forest fire on a stick and really enjoy it the way I've seen somebody sip a nice cold pint of premium beer brewed in some factory in the north.

You just read my first and only attempt to glamorise alcohol.

Plus everyone knows that your lungs are of far bigger value to you than your liver. True enough both provide a quality service to your functioning body but the liver seems all together more interchangable than the lungs. Like failing your MOT and finding out you need a new fan belt instead of a whole new engine.

The irony of course is I will die from malnutrition long before anybody I've even shaken hands with is booking in for their annual check up.