Back in my 20s, I was a regular “party smoker”, sparking up on a night out with friends, or heading outside for a cheeky fag during a raucous dinner party. Smoking was part of the ritual of going out, ...
In 1959, 19-year-old Leonard Lipton, then studying at Cornell University in New York, wrote a poem, inspired by a 1936 poem by American poet Ogden Nash (1902-1971), “The Tale of Custard The Dragon.” ...