New analysis of US trends shows a far better smoking cessation rate for people using vapes in more recent years. Why might this be?

Kiran Sidhu reports:

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The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows: Uncommonly Lovely Invented Words for What We Feel but Cannot Name

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Charlie Chaplin’s ‘Smile’, on the composer and filmmaker’s 135th birthday. 💛

Musicians are rising star violinist Roberts Balanas, Liz Moore, Iván Artaraz García, Jokin Urtasun Ripalda, Jordi Creus Cortadellas. Filmed at the striking CCMD CyL in Valladolid, Spain.

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Is it better to travel than to arrive?

Bloody hell! I just found out, The Cross, at King’s Cross, is open again! Can someone take me there?!

Here’s something I wrote about the 90’s club scene in London when The Cross was one of the best 😎 filtermag.org/youth-clubbing…

“Everyone goes back to where they felt loved.
In a memory. In a thought.
In a hug. In a dream.'

-Linda Valentinis

When Albert Einstein met Charlie Chaplin in 1931, Einstein said, 'What I admire most about your art is its universality. You do not say a word, and yet the world understands you.' 'It's true.' Replied Chaplin, 'But your fame is even greater. The world admires you, when no one…

Bedtime reading

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This happened a year ago - my author copies of my book arrived! My career advisor at school thought a working class girl like me could never be a writer - “writing can only be a hobby.”

When I was 9 a girl at school had an A4 size folded board. Inside the board were loads of scratch ‘n’ stickers: shark, an old boot, I still think of that board. On my 40th bday I asked for 1980’s scratch & sniff stickers. I never got them😔. Does anyone where I can get them?

Tucked away in a corner of Tehran's Grand Bazaar ~ Mohammad Rafi, surrounded by all the colours of the rainbow in his tiny shop that sells nothing but coloured pencils
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'The world needs a World Health Organization that tells the truth.'

Skip Murray dissects the WHO's latest egregious claim in pursuit of its anti-tobacco harm reduction agenda:

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Made this little dish in my pottery class.

Study Does Not Show Vapes Cause Cancer, Still Sparks Alarmism

The research on changes in cheek cells doesn't equate to a cancer link, but you wouldn't know that from media headlines. Various experts point to the study's limitations, reports Kiran Sidhu:
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A manic wave from the margins - Doodle from an early 12th century manuscript, Paris, Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève, Ms. 95, f. 6r

41 Years on and still no justice. Remembering Blair Peach who was killed during the Southall riots.

Random pic of Karen Millen and me in the Green Room