Monthly Archives: August 2012

The results of research carried out between 2008 and 2010 by the World Health Organization, US Centers for Disease Control, and the Canadian Public Health Association into tobacco use in low and middle income counties compared with the UK and US.

Nutshell: the sun rises in the east and everyone takes a light off it.

Tobacco use in 3 billion individuals from 16 countries: an analysis of nationally representative cross-sectional household survey (The Lancet)

Meanwhile, in less bleak smoking news, Tasmania is considering legislation that will ban the sale of cigarettes to anyone born after the year 2000. (Hat tip: Mark Geary)

22words/theeconomist

Also: mow-hawt.

Ben Morgan (18!), son of Dermot Morgan, launching the Irish Heart Foundation’s ‘Heart Month September campaign (‘Down with Blood Pressure’), alongside his brothers Don (below left) and Rob (right). Dermot died from a heart attack in 1998 aged 45.

(Sasko Lazarov/Photocall Ireland)

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2hP4eNJ2cE

What you may need to know

1. We are making it our mission to keep you up to date with all future Straight-To-DVD movies featuring Nicolas Cage and/or 50 Cent. Thankfully, Frozen Ground features both. Although Fiddy isn’t in the trailer.

2. This appears to be an unfinished trailer, like they couldn’t even be bothered.

3. With this, The Raven (2012) and the forthcoming Paperboy (2012)  John Cusack appears to be entering his serial killer movie phase; next, he plays Richard Nixon.

4. Based on ‘actual events’ and directed by Scott Walker (not the reclusive avant-garde pop genius), Frozen Ground also features Hank from Breaking Bad. We love Hank.

5. Vanessa Hudgens has made a graceful move from wholesome teen ingenues (the High School Musical trilogy) to more mature roles, such as a dancing prostitute in Sucker Punch (2012) and now an Alaskan stripper/serial killer bait.

6. A million years ago, Cage and Cusack starred in the magnificent Con Air (1997). These days, Cage is holding out for an offer to appear in Expendables 3.

Release Date (Ireland): DVD shelves by Xmas (our estimate)