How Times Have Changed... - TURF

harb · 6th March 2012, 04:05 PM

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50 years ago on Tuesday, a key report was published that marked the beginning of a change in our relationship with smoking.

Although there had been previous warnings linking smoking and lung cancer, it was the 1962 study by the Royal College of Physicians, Smoking and Health, that really broke through to the public and politicians.

Attitudes in the intervening 50 years have changed enormously.

But in 1962, very few people took the dangers posed by smoking cigarettes seriously.

Read more here - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-17264442

What I found very interesting was the video clip of a reporter interviewing smokers on the street. Well worth watching for the accents, manners and attitudes back in 1962!
(Although the clip kept reminding me of Harry Enfield's "Mr Cholmondley-Warner" sketches!!

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Java · 6th March 2012, 06:24 PM

Fantastic . Love the accents

harb · 6th March 2012, 06:36 PM

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Originally Posted by Java

Fantastic . Love the accents

Awe, indeed, fentestic - love the eggz'nts...

Snooty · 6th March 2012, 06:50 PM

Good post, innit. Well, that's one vice I've avoided!
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Snooty · 6th March 2012, 06:52 PM

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rolexplorer2 · 6th March 2012, 06:59 PM

Fantastic Harb,quite funny as you say like Harry Enfield. They must have intreviewed only posh people in those days,certainly never interviewed anyone from Liverpool there. Times certainly have changed !

NickIslander · 7th March 2012, 11:44 AM

A very interesting reminder of life when I was 9! I do vaguely remember that report coming out; even at my young age I noticed the debate it caused.

Neither of my parents smoked, but most of the rest of the family did (with many suffering the health consequences later).

By the way, we still all talk like that in the south, don't you know?

harb · 7th March 2012, 12:31 PM

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Originally Posted by NickIslander

By the way, we still all talk like that in the south, don't you know?

LOL!!

However, not even the Queen still sounds like that! - see http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/1080228.stm

Another example of modernisation of classic British icons - eg Mini, Rolls-Royce, Bentley.
Germans, eh?!

NickIslander · 7th March 2012, 04:53 PM

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Originally Posted by harb

Germans, eh?!

LOL! Brilliant Harb!

6th March 2012, 06:24 PM	#2
Java Super Moderator Join Date: May 2009 Location: Cardiff UK Posts: 5,490	Fantastic . Love the accents __________________ You can't un-ring a bell. When the hands of time have swept passed that which is done, it can never truly be un-done.

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Snooty Distinguished WIS Black Level TURFer Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 17,856	Good post, innit. Well, that's one vice I've avoided! S Attached Thumbnails __________________ Proud TURF Loyalist/Whip

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NickIslander Rolex Expert Platinum Level TURFer Join Date: May 2003 Location: Isle of Wight, UK Posts: 4,301	A very interesting reminder of life when I was 9! I do vaguely remember that report coming out; even at my young age I noticed the debate it caused. Neither of my parents smoked, but most of the rest of the family did (with many suffering the health consequences later). By the way, we still all talk like that in the south, don't you know? __________________ RNLI Lifeboat crew-member. Had to have some excuse for all the Subs!

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6th March 2012, 06:59 PM	#6
rolexplorer2 Learning to Tell Time Gold Level TURFer Join Date: May 2010 Location: england Posts: 265	Fantastic Harb,quite funny as you say like Harry Enfield. They must have intreviewed only posh people in those days,certainly never interviewed anyone from Liverpool there. Times certainly have changed !