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BLANCHE (taking the cigarette): I have always relied on the kindness of strangers 

ROSENCRANTZ and GUILDENSTERN rise from their seats in the audience, joining the trio, who are smoking. They stand there, motionless and smokeless. LINDA clears her throat aggressively.)

GUILDENSTERN: We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke and a presumption that once our eyes watered. . . .

Suddenly, Attorney General LORI SWANSON enters, brandishing the business end of an enormous fire hose. She surveys the room, which has fallen silent except for the slight hiss of ash hitting the beer-soaked floor and the sound of TOM hocking a tubucular loogie the size of Rhode Island.)

BELARIUS: The game is up.

(As the firehose is toted into the bar by members of the Association for Nonsmokers — Minnesota in hazmat suits, Swanson, who is not smoking, regards the room. She aims the hose at the stage and gives a nod. The hose becomes engorged. Just before the watery onslaught, her words can be heard:)

SWANSON: Years from now, when you talk about this ... and you will ... be kind.

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Carte Blanche Leads Campaign to Protest F1 Cancellation 

If young Canada-based agency Carte blanche communication marketing (www.cbcm.ca) has its way, Formula 1 Grand Prix boss Bernie Ecclestone is going to be inundated with a lot of mail.

On its own initiative, Carte Blanche has designed a bilingual postcard pre-addressed to Ecclestone that its hopes Quebecers will send by the thousands to protest the apparent loss of the race.

Some 108,000 cards have been printed by Transcontinental printing and are being distributed by the Pop Media network. And Le Devoir and Mtro daily newspapers are running ads to build awareness and support for the effort.

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Carte Blanche et Pop Média en désaccord avec le départ du Grand Prix de Montréal 

the advertising agency montréalaise Carte Blanche Communication Marketing launches this week a publicity as a protest vis-a-vis the beginning of the Grand Prix of Formula 1 of Montreal. Printed publicity is a postcard intended for president de Formula One Management, Mr Bernard "Bernie" Ecclestone, by exposing the serious error clearly to him that it makes by drawing aside Montreal of the circuit of Formula 1 in 2004.

Using a strong and daring image, the famous advertisement using a cigarette which burns quietly, the sad destiny of the Gran Prix of Formula 1 of Montreal which is condemned to die out after 25 years of existence. The back of the postcard encourages people to dispatch the chart with Mr. Ecclestone in order to show their solidarity towards the event. A text frondor explains unambiguous to Mr. Ecclestone why the social concerns vis-a-vis the harmful effects of the cigarette are founded and that its policy of mixed liability company should more reflect the needs for the populations which accomodate the Great Price of Formula 1.

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Tobacco a la Carte / Pick what to eat and what to smoke at convivial cafe 

Dabous and Ismail, 25, also ordered something diners would be hard-pressed to find at other Mid-South restaurants.

Restaurant owner Ghazi Abuhussein brought to their table two yard-tall water pipes, also known as hookahs, nargiles or hubble-bubble pipes.

Cafes in Middle Eastern countries commonly make hookahs available to their customers, who enjoy them as a social activity as well as for the sensory pleasures of smoking. "We start talking about work," and then the conversation turns to home, Ismail said. . .

The weekend outings to Jerusalem Cafe, 1664 Sycamore View near Bartlett, provide a relaxing break for these Cairo natives, who pack a lot of work into their weekdays.

Ismail, who emigrated two years ago, is a graduate teaching assistant at University of Tennessee Health Science Center and researcher at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.

Dabous, who graduates this spring from the University of Memphis, works in a kidney-transplant unit at UT Health Science Center.

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