The war on smoking has some strange battle fronts. Here are a few.
Mario Tama/Getty ImagesAfter a ban on smoking in bars, some Dutch customers miss that tobacco smell. Rain Showtechniek, a Dutch company, now sells fake cigarette smells to bars and cafes.
At 112, Henry William Allingham, a WWI Veteran, is Europe's oldest man, and credits his longevity to "cigarettes, whisky and wild, wild women"
Here's a new wrinkle to smoking: A Japanese vending machine will examine wrinkles to determine if the buyer is old enough to smoke.
The Chinese may be the world's most enthusiastic smokers. The only smoke-free restaurant chain is facing bankruptcy after driving away droves of business with a smoking ban.
Only days after a Hamburg newspaper reported on a computer company that fired three employees for not smoking, allegedly because they asked for a smoke-free environment, we now find that the whole story was a hoax. "He said he's a chain-smoker himself and said he was tired of smokers being hassled so much," the paper now says.
The New York Department of Health has confirmed that 48-year-old Skip Legault -- the state's new anti-smoking poster boy -- is still smoking. Legault has suffered an amputated leg, two heart attacks (the first at 28-years-old) and a stroke. As he says in the ad, "Every bit of this is from smoking."
