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Published on Monday, 17 October 2011 12:47 | | 
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OK, I get it now! The hookah bubbling away is just a more fruity form of smoking tobacco. But is the shisha tobacco — flavoured with fruit and the smoke filtered through water — a similar health risk or in fact far more dangerous?
Shisha cafés have always struck me as the Arab equivalent of ye olde English pub of yore, minus the beer-stained carpet.
The pubs I have occasionally used — usually for a quick dash to the loo — are bastions of maleness suggesting a bygone era. But I have never dared enter those exotic all-male shisha emporiums. Although I've enjoyed the fruity wafts of smoke as I walk by.
Published on Friday, 14 October 2011 21:42 | | |
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Buddhism teaches a path leading to freedom and happiness. But does this mean giving up our attachments and desires? Or transforming the way we relate to our own needs and to the world around us?
Published on Friday, 14 October 2011 15:55 | | |
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Take this pre-flight check before you take to the skies...
(And lots more interesting stuff at 'Information is Beautiful')
Published on Friday, 14 October 2011 15:19 | | |
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The amount of money spent by the USA on its wars in Afghanistan and Iraq continues to grow - even as the US economy struggles with ballooning debt.
Published on Friday, 14 October 2011 12:48 | | |
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Throughout Asia thousands of bears live a life of torture on bear farms, in agonisingly tiny cages, so their bile can be extracted for use in traditional medicine to cure anything from headaches to haemorrhoids.
Fortunately, there is a lot we can do to end this horrific trade.
Published on Friday, 14 October 2011 11:30 | | |
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Published on Thursday, 13 October 2011 00:00 | | |
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The Dutch Government is reclassifying high-strength 'skunk' cannabis to put it in the same category as hard drugs like heroin and crystal meth. Addictions specialist and therapist Sarah Graham, currently setting up the Amy Winehouse Foundation, shares her experience of treating young marijuana addicts.