Only if you can find fat free bacon.
It will get more expensive.

Hopefully...

Happily the Northern hemisphere now has a hole in their ozone layer too...so perhaps the twits on the "top" of the world will eventually concede that global warming is a genuine issue.

Who's still running CFC refrigeration?....

It's not that it doesn't increase the risk of skin cancer (it does), but they would make it sound like you go to the beach and BAM!, you're dead. Then we *all* have to pay the bill for THEIR skin cancer (their argument to brain wash people, of course).

This is what they did with cigarettes, which is bad for you no doubt, but looking at the anti-tobaco fundamentalists behavior these days you would almost say they are truly convinced that taking a whiff from second hand smoke means instant death to them. Sigh.

Getting back to the beach (and the sun tan) it's funny how these things go: back in medieval times, a perfectly pearly white skin was *THE* sign of social status (you see, the only people with tans were peasants, toiling away in the sun, while nobility hid away from it in their castles). Now it's the opposite: a sign of status is to show case a tan all year long, as it usually means that person has a lot of free time to spend on the beach living the good life, while others are forced to toil away in darkened offices.

Dream on. There's no money to be had there, only money to spend.

The bastards

They've pretty much killed the Pub trade over here, because not many people want to go outside to smoke when you live in a country that's cold and wet a lot of the time. That in itself has probably increased the number of antisocial behaviour crimes being committed, because so many of the younger generation that would once have gone out for a few swift ones with their friends at the weekend, don't bother doing that now. Instead they invite their friends round to get rat-arsed while playing Xbox or PS3, or just stay at home and have their own personal party, like the jerks that live below me.

They're planning to make all cigarette packaging plain white over here, so that it's less appealing to minors. Yeah, like that'll work! I think all they'll do with that is save the tobacco companies some expense when it comes to the packaging, as the more colours you use, the more it costs. It's generally one of the ways supermarkets keep cost so low on their own brand budget range.

It is funny, Jorge. During the time of the Flemish Baroque painter, Peter Paul Rubens, women were considered to look healthy if they were of a 'fuller' figure. Yet these days, women are made to feel so neurotic about their weight and how they look.

If the present is the opposite of medieval does that mean medieval is the opposite of sucky?