"Cigarette may have started massive Whidbey Island firework explosion that destroyed homes"

https://www.kiro7.com/news/local/evidence-found-someone-smoking-near-huge-whidbey-island-neighborhood-fireworks-explosion/57P6WEN7ABCCJEDP5EMJS2EVFE/

See? Further proof that smoking is bad for your health and wallet. It could lead to your house blowing up thanks in part to your fireworks collection.

#Smoking #Fireworks #Explosion #Fail #Washington

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KIRO 7 News Seattle

Little rant about smoking people.

If I have a red flag that shouldn't be one in general it is smoking.
Because I live above a hairdresser salon and they put a bench in front of their shop, which is underneath my bedroom window. And because one of them smoked, they put up an ashtray. And those are frequently used by all kinds of people, who walk past or were guests of the restaurant next door and who don't pay attention to me having my window open to get some air.
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#rant #smoking

On cigarettes – Blog Fiasco

There’s something to be said for cigarettes. Most of it, of course, is bad. Cigarettes smell awful. The stench lingers and invades long after the cigarette is gone. Cigarettes, of course, also kill people. Lung cancer from a lifetime of … Continue reading →

Blog Fiasco

Truck fitted with CT scanner checks for lung cancer in remote NT
By Tilda Colling

A road train fitted with a battery-powered CT scanner is travelling across the NT outback to screen remote community residents for lung cancer, in the jurisdiction with Australia's highest diagnosis and mortality rates for the disease.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06-25/nt-lung-cancer-screening-service-in-remote-communities/106837452

#LungCancer #Cancer #RuralandRemoteCommunities #IndigenousAustralians #Smoking #PublicHealth #TildaColling

Truck fitted with CT scanner checks for lung cancer in remote NT

A road train fitted with a battery-powered CT scanner is travelling across the NT outback to screen remote community residents for lung cancer, in the jurisdiction with Australia's highest diagnosis and mortality rates for the disease.

"Just a quick smoke"

This one is too good in colour to let it sit in black and white. The guy with the yellow hat stepped out of the train with this enormous trash bag on a trolley. Then he stopped in the sunlight to light his cigarette.

Camera: Panasonic Lumix TZ101
Edit: small adjustments in colour, shadows, black level and highlights. Cropped for format.

#photo #photography #street #streetphotography #trainstation #human #hat #brightcolours #colourful #smoking

The Guardian view on nicotine: we shouldn’t buy the idea of addiction without harm

Editorial: The UN is set to review the legal status of nicotine. An outright ban would go too far, but there is no case for its easy availability

The Guardian