E-cigarettes
The vaping craze isn’t about nicotine. It’s about gadgets
Probably you never visited the flats of middle-class student drug dealers in the 1990s, because crikey, neither did I, and…
Twenty things I will ban when I am elected your Dictator For Life in 2016
Things I am going to ban when, by popular acclaim, I am elected your Dictator For Life in 2016.…
‘Quitting is suffering’: Hon Lik, inventor of the e-cigarette, on why he did it
Hon Lik, life-saving inventor of the e-cigarette, on why he did it
The trick that makes self-checkouts almost tolerable
I spent the last few days in Deal and Folkestone with Professor Richard Thaler at Nudgestock, Ogilvy’s seaside festival of…
Dear Mary: What can I do about my neighbours’ downmarket recycling?
Q. Since recycling was introduced in our village, the wall at the end of our drive has become the depositing…
Richard Madeley’s diary: Forgetting Tom Conti’s name, and other harrowing experiences
Oh God, it’s happened again. Another evening where I’m surrounded by people I know personally or have interviewed, and I…
Help me become an addict
When the White Queen told Alice she had sometimes believed as many as six contradictory things before breakfast, she spoke…
The war on e-cigarettes is enough to make me give up giving up
I have been, on and off, a lifelong smoker; but I gave up in January 2009 on the day of…
Why don’t more non-smokers try e-cigarettes?
I was waiting on an office forecourt recently puffing on an e-cigarette when a security guard came out. ‘You can’t…
E-cigarettes are making tobacco obsolete. So why ban them?
The e-cigarette means that tobacco is going the way of the top hat. So what is the medical establishment’s problem with it?
How Grand Theft Auto prevents crime and violence
It was about a week ago, at 8 p.m., when our blackout happened. In the 1980s people would have headed…
Dear Mary — The e-cigarette party is the new Tupperware party
Q. One of my oldest and best friends, who has lived up north for years, begged me to let her…
Hugo Rifkind: For now, I’m choosing to believe in Tommy Robinson’s conversion
I’ve often thought it might be interesting to meet Tommy Robinson, or Stephen Lennon, or whatever one is supposed to…
Letters: On quitting Facebook, and putting down Nigel
Why we joined Sir: I was astonished by the assertion made by Wyn Grant (Letters, 21 September) that ‘the postwar…
The BMA’s bizarre jihad against e-cigarettes
What strategy should we adopt to cope with the British Medical Association? Its members kill more people each year than…
