Ashtray Articles

'i Worry About What Message Is Sent. Is Buying Soap Another Way Of Saying "you Smell"?'

WHATEVER happened to the global financial crisis? The shops are full of crazed people with a desperate look in their eyes, buying whole trailer-loads of useless stuff. Christmas stuff. Stuff like a cat calendar, purchased because Aunty Patricia has a cat; a golf ashtray, purchased because Uncle Terry plays golf;..read more

The World Is Not Your Ashtray

TEMPORARILY Two-armed Australians (TTAs). You will undoubtedly have seen at least a couple if you drove to work this morning. Smokers, right arm extended languidly into space (rather in the fashion of the representation of Adam on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel), casually flicking ash into that part of..read more

Thanks And Farewell Jacques

There are many expensive gifts from world leaders in the Jacques Chirac museum - and an ashtray from Tony Blair. Kevin Pilley reports.

Smoke-free? You Must Be Choking

Terry Smyth is witness to an Eternal City miracle - the eternal ciggie. The Trevi Fountain is just an oversized ashtray to the locals

Rewind 1988

Busking and performing live took guts, plus the ability to dodge the odd ashtray, says the former Doug Anthony Allstars entertainer and Strictly Dancing host.