Lamont's Still Smokin'
My old chum and former colleague Lamont Howie has launched a blog, detailing his attempts to quit smoking.
Lamont now works for 91Èȱ¬ Radio Stoke and, as you know, England is preparing for the ban on smoking in public places that Scotland adopted more than a year ago. All the same arguments are being rehearsed and, like Lamont, many nictotine junkies are using the ban as another good reason to give up the ciggies.
A lot of people have been asking me about Lamont lately, mainly because of one of the videos we posted on the You Tube site. Lamont organised all the outside broadcasts we staged as part of the station's 25th birthday celebrations and, in , he's the only person who actually gets to speak.
He says one word - his own name - and that's because we originally had an introduction to that video but Lamont kept fluffing his lines and getting angry with himself.
I think that was the day he started on the fags.
