Thursday, April 20, 2006

Artistic interference

Scotland imposed a smoking ban similar to ours on March 31. One theatre manager is defying the on-stage smoking ban because he believes it is "interference with art". (Perhaps Russell Crowe could try that one but it would pose the tougher question of whether his music constitutes art). Loved this quote;

The theatre and comedy producer David Johnson said: "The ban is ludicrous, it's pathetic, frankly. You can show sex on stage but you couldn't show them smoking afterwards."

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

And how exactly is sex supposed to cause lung cancer again?

Lindsay Mitchell said...

Errr.....the same way smoking causes cervical cancer?

Smoking is stupid. So are a hundred and one other things that people do. Banning them from doing it doesn't make them stop.