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Jump to full article: The Guardian (uk), 2009-09-21
Intro: Of course Mark Lawson is correct to point out how risible it can be to censor photographs of famous people holding cigarettes, such as Jacques Chirac, the composer Rachmaninov or the interviewer Lynn Barber (Lost in the clouds, 19 September) but he surely underestimates the influence of role models on how people behave. . . .
I have to admit that, after filming blues singer Big Joe Williams for the BBC in 1976, I had myself photographed playing his famous nine-string guitar and I just had to have a cigarette in my mouth to complete the picture. To this day, I wince every time I see it.
Alexander Chancellor waxes furious about the proposed smoking ban in New York parks (G2, 18 September). The evidence of the negative effects of passive smoking on health is overwhelming.
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