The smoking ban is only days away and pubs are thinking of ways to mark the passing. Here there is a smoking dinner on Saturday night. Elsewhere I've heard of various initiatives. One licensee is having a smoking sing-a-long which sounds ghastly. But if he can make it work so much the better.
Yesterday I put together a quiz which I thought I'd share here. Good luck!
Smoking quiz
- Who said "What are you going to do? Charge me with smoking?"
- What was Darrell Winfield famous for?
- What is 4 ¾" x 40 (123mm x 15.87mm)?
- Who went to work for Phillip Morris for an alleged salary of £250,000?
- Who announced "It is also the case that about 95 per cent of the deaths that result from passive smoking occur as a result of passive smoking in people's homes, not in public places or in membership clubs"?
- When was cigarette advertising banned on television?
- Rodrigo de Jerez is credited as being the first European smoker. In what year?
- What do Russ Abbott, Stephen Fry and Ian Botham have in common?
- Who wrote "And a woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke"?
- What word connects tobacco, a bird, a hairstyle, sexual intercourse and an historical currency from the Ukraine?
- When was smoking first thought to damage your lungs?
- Who said "Girls who are very difficult to get into bed usually don't smoke"?
- How many billions of pounds excise revenue was raised from the sale of tobacco products in 2006? (Within one billion!)
- What is the cost, in billions of pounds, to the NHS of tobacco related illness each year? (Within one billion!)
- With which brand would "a two week test will tell you why"?
- The advert featured Terence Brooks lighting a cigarette on a street corner. It was dreadful. The brand disappeared soon afterwards. What was the slogan and the brand?
- What is a tobacco baron?
- From what animal is the word cigarette derived?
- Which monarch first introduced a significant tax on tobacco?
- Available in regular, kingsize and kingsize slim and not counting the speciality and doubles papers, what are the four colours of Rizlas?
- Sir Francis Drake, Sir Walter Raleigh and Richard Grenville have all been credited with the introduction of tobacco to England. But a more likely candidate was a slave trader a few years earlier. Who was he?
- Who said "'I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again."?
- What word connects a character from A Midsummer Night's Dream, a waterfall on the river Tees, an informer and a slang name for tobacco?
- What brand of cigarette, introduced into the UK by BJ Cunningham, marketed itself as being the only brand completely honest about the dangers of smoking. What was it called?