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Smoking

“Fast forward to the 1990s. Smoking is not acceptable in the UK and you feel like a complete outcast when you have to sit alone in the garden at parties, because you’re not allowed to smoke inside. You get to the stage where you feel you might as well say, ‘I hope you don’t mind if I just find a vein.'” Phil can live (just) with becoming a pariah – but being mucked about by the airlines is another matter.

Cartoon of a dentist and a patient in the chair, both grinning, with several extracted teeth on the floor

Dentists

“Why would anyone want to be a dentist? I can’t think of anything worse than poking around at someone’s grotty teeth…” Phil expresses some sympathy for the plight of dentists – and for her own when she has to submit to their attentions.