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<title>Cafe Med: Calgary’s Gem of a Lounge with an Authentic Middle Eastern Twist</title>
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<![CDATA[<p>Nestled away in the southwest corner of downtown Calgary, wafting the alluring smell of middle-eastern food and the delightfully hazy smoke of numerous sheesha pipes into the street, Cafe Med stakes its claim on cultural presence.  The small, dim cafe holds the title of Calgary's premier hookah lounge, and the best one at that.  With a friendly, social, and relaxed atmosphere that's punctuated by popular Arab music and sometimes-rambunctious banter of middle-aged men in conversation, Cafe Med promises to please.</p>
<p>Beginning with the menu, Cafe Med boasts delicious, reasonably priced food from all over the Mediterranean regions, from falafels to hummus, and Italian soda to baklava.  The menu also serves take-out, which is very popular during the work day, but a tough decision to make when their sheesha menu is equally appetizing.</p>
<p>Sitting down in Cafe Med can mean two things; either you're there for a quick bite, or you're there for a long hour of lounging with a hookah and socializing.  The sheesha menu not only presents the typical flavours of tobacco that are found at any similar lounge, like peach, grape, apple, and lemon, but a very appealing menu of home-mixed blends, like pink lemonade and "grango," a mixture of grape and mango tobaccos.  A pipe is brought to your table lit and ready to go, complimenting your meal or drink.</p>
<p>You're always guaranteed friendly service at Cafe Med. Not only to the owners double as servers in the small, often busy lounge, a good number of the guests are friends or family, and therefore conversation encompassing the whole room occurs quite regularly.  Sometimes the servers even take a seat and chat with new guests, suggesting things from the menu and offering their advice on where to go for a good time throughout the rest of Calgary.</p>
<p>On the corner of 10th and 1st, Cafe Med is hard to miss with its patrons and music spilling into the street in the evening. If you're in Calgary and want to try something a little out of the ordinary, Cafe Med is a must.</p><a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.trifter.com%2FUSA-%26amp%3B-Canada%2FAlberta%2FCafe-Med-Calgarys-Gem-of-a-Lounge-with-an-Authentic-Middle-Eastern-Twist.168009"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.trifter.com%2FUSA-%26amp%3B-Canada%2FAlberta%2FCafe-Med-Calgarys-Gem-of-a-Lounge-with-an-Authentic-Middle-Eastern-Twist.168009" border="0"/></a>]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2008 02:51:58 PST</pubDate></item>
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<title>A Collection of Powerful Anti-smoking Ads From Around the World</title>
<link>http://www.trifter.com/Practical-Travel/A-Collection-of-Powerful-Anti-smoking-Ads-From-Around-the-World.75806</link>
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<![CDATA[<h3>Second Hand Smoke Campaign: Malaysia</h3>

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<h3>Impotence Campaign: United Kingdom, 2005</h3>
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<h3>Impotence Campaign: Four posters from ASH Australia </h3>
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<h3>Impotence Campaign: Australia</h3>

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<h3>Addiction Campaign: “You're hooked” Anti-smoking ad on UK billboards.</h3>
<img alt="" src="http://images.stanzapub.com/readers/trifter/2008/01/20/102823_20.jpg" />
<h3>Controversial poster rejected by Hong Kong tobacco control authorities as insensitive</h3>
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<h3>“Animals: It looks just as stupid when you do it” campaign, Minnesota, 1989</h3>


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<h3>Smoking is ‘unsexy’ campaign, UK</h3>
<img alt="" src="http://images.stanzapub.com/readers/trifter/2008/01/20/102823_6.jpg" />
<h3>Stop! Smoking, Brazil</h3>
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<h3>Ad used real cigarette butts at bus stops. </h3>

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<h3>
A series of posters in 2000 by the Cancer Foundation of Western Australia</h3><img alt="" src="http://images.stanzapub.com/readers/trifter/2008/01/20/102823_9.jpg" /><br/><br/><img alt="" src="http://images.stanzapub.com/readers/trifter/2008/01/20/102823_10.jpg" /><br/><br/>
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<h3>Cigarette Packaging</h3>
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<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jan 2008 08:08:07 PST</pubDate></item>
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<title>Attention! Hilarious &amp; Confusing Signs Ahead</title>
<link>http://www.trifter.com/Practical-Travel/All-Hilarious-Signs-in-the-World.72018</link>
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<p><img src="http://images.stanzapub.com/readers/trifter/2008/01/07/98063_16.jpg" alt="" /></p>
 
<p>Be alert of a giant dancing squid while swimming!</p>



<p><img src="http://images.stanzapub.com/readers/trifter/2008/01/07/98063_5.jpg" alt="" /></p>
 
<p>Please do not poop on the tree!</p>





	

 
<p><img src="http://images.stanzapub.com/readers/trifter/2008/01/07/98063_1.jpg" alt="" /></p>
 
<p>Cool, what type of burger is termed “Yo baby burger?”</p>
 
<p><img src="http://images.stanzapub.com/readers/trifter/2008/01/07/98063_2.jpg" alt="" /></p>
 
<p>Actually reads: “Watch for children...they could be yours.” What is the purpose of this sign? Do kids in Quebec usually go to the road and then become unconscious?</p>
 
<p><img src="http://images.stanzapub.com/readers/trifter/2008/01/07/98063_3.jpg" alt="" /></p>
 
<p>An emergency brake found in a Dutch train. Nevertheless, someone purposely wrote “room service” on it, which means pull here for room service!</p>
 


<p><img src="http://images.stanzapub.com/readers/trifter/2008/01/07/98063_4.jpg" alt="" /></p>
 
<p>Be careful; do not let the sea claim your car!</p>
 

 
<p><img src="http://images.stanzapub.com/readers/trifter/2008/01/07/98063_6.jpg" alt="" /></p>
 
<p>Coffee and what?! Some snack of SNAKE...</p>
 
<p><img src="http://images.stanzapub.com/readers/trifter/2008/01/07/98063_7.jpg" alt="" /></p>
 
<p>If your dog has a giant hair on his neck, he will be the next king.</p>
 
<p><img src="http://images.stanzapub.com/readers/trifter/2008/01/07/98063_8.jpg" alt="" /></p>
 
<p>Wait! The ducklings and their mother are crossing the road.</p>
 
<p><img src="http://images.stanzapub.com/readers/trifter/2008/01/07/98063_9.jpg" alt="" /></p>
 
<p>The poop is in an odd shape, it looks like charcoal ice cream.</p>
 
<p><img src="http://images.stanzapub.com/readers/trifter/2008/01/07/98063_10.jpg" alt="" /></p>
 
<p>...the latest design of a toilet ball?</p>
 
<p><img src="http://images.stanzapub.com/readers/trifter/2008/01/07/98063_11.jpg" alt="" /></p>
 
<p>Hmmm ... lost the faith in GOD?</p>
 
<p><img src="http://images.stanzapub.com/readers/trifter/2008/01/07/98063_12.jpg" alt="" /></p>
 
<p>It is Ok you do not speak Dutch, as “urinoir” means...</p>
 
<p><img src="http://images.stanzapub.com/readers/trifter/2008/01/07/98063_13.jpg" alt="" /></p>
 
<p>The sign says “Warning! Trying to climb the bin is dangerous.” Someone may change his mind at the last minute by climbing into this old clothes collection bin and be mistaken for donation.</p>
 
<p><img src="http://images.stanzapub.com/readers/trifter/2008/01/07/98063_14.jpg" alt="" /></p>
 
<p>Do not use your laptop while...</p>
 
<p><img src="http://images.stanzapub.com/readers/trifter/2008/01/07/98063_15.jpg" alt="" /></p>
 
<p>The sign means, “Take your dog's poop home!” Oops, poop has feelings, too! The poop has an angry face, how funny is that?!</p>
 

 
<p><img src="http://images.stanzapub.com/readers/trifter/2008/01/07/98063_17.jpg" alt="" /></p>
 
<p>Hey, kid, you do not hit your target!</p>
 
<p><img src="http://images.stanzapub.com/readers/trifter/2008/01/07/98063_18.jpg" alt="" /></p>
 
<p>...have people really locked and suffocated their toddlers in the plastic bin that call for a warning sign???</p>
 
<p><img src="http://images.stanzapub.com/readers/trifter/2008/01/07/98063_19.jpg" alt="" /></p>
 
<p>Awesome! Monkeys or coworkers...</p>
 
<p><img src="http://images.stanzapub.com/readers/trifter/2008/01/07/98063_20.jpg" alt="" /></p>
 
<p>Hmmm ... an emergency meeting area...</p>
 
<p><img src="http://images.stanzapub.com/readers/trifter/2008/01/07/98063_21.jpg" alt="" /></p>
 
<p>The sign in Japanese reads: “Smoking in a clump of people is bad. People's coats are mostly expensive.”</p>
 
<p><img src="http://images.stanzapub.com/readers/trifter/2008/01/07/98063_22.jpg" alt="" /></p>
 
<p>Wow, UFO ...an alien abduction area?!</p>
 
<p><img src="http://images.stanzapub.com/readers/trifter/2008/01/07/98063_23.jpg" alt="" /></p>
 
<p>Naked men with hats not allowed entering the church.</p>
 
<p><img src="http://images.stanzapub.com/readers/trifter/2008/01/07/98063_24.jpg" alt="" /></p>
 
<p>Oh no...Is this “modern” corpse transportation? Why is this stiff dead man still smiling?</p>
 
<p><img src="http://images.stanzapub.com/readers/trifter/2008/01/07/98063_25.jpg" alt="" /></p>
 
<p>What kind of bin is this? Do not put fish or a bag in the bin or it will bite you. ...oh no, dwarves and children cannot use it too...hmmm...anyway do not stick your head in it.</p>
 
<p><img src="http://images.stanzapub.com/readers/trifter/2008/01/07/98063_26.jpg" alt="" /></p>
 
<p>Danger! You will be chased by possessed construction machinery"....</p>
 
<p><img src="http://images.stanzapub.com/readers/trifter/2008/01/07/98063_27.jpg" alt="" /></p>
 
<p>No passing gas here, please!</p>
 
<p><img src="http://images.stanzapub.com/readers/trifter/2008/01/07/98063_28.jpg" alt="" /></p>
 
<p>An explosive car should not be here!</p>
 
<p><img src="http://images.stanzapub.com/readers/trifter/2008/01/07/98063_29.jpg" alt="" /></p>
 
<p>Do not flush baby bottle, fork, syringe, bottle, cup and underwear down the toilet!</p>
 
<p><img src="http://images.stanzapub.com/readers/trifter/2008/01/07/98063_30.jpg" alt="" /></p>
 
<p>Attention! Mr. Superman, do not cross here!</p>
 
<p><img src="http://images.stanzapub.com/readers/trifter/2008/01/07/98063_31.jpg" alt="" /></p>
 
<p>Mr. Elk: “Hey you alien baby, do not touch my antler velvet!”</p>
 
<p><img src="http://images.stanzapub.com/readers/trifter/2008/01/07/98063_32.jpg" alt="" /></p>
 
<p>Do not laser your hand! It will turn black!</p>
 
<p><img src="http://images.stanzapub.com/readers/trifter/2008/01/07/98063_33.jpg" alt="" /></p>
 
<p>Japan Tobacco made a series of these posters to encourage smokers to be more polite about litter and smoking in public places. Some of them are indeed very poetic.</p>
 
<p><img src="http://images.stanzapub.com/readers/trifter/2008/01/07/98063_34.jpg" alt="" /></p>
 
<p>Do not smoke here or a man in a top black hat will break one of your legs with a smile.</p>
 
<p><img src="http://images.stanzapub.com/readers/trifter/2008/01/07/98063_35.jpg" alt="" /></p>
 
<p>Shut up! Let us go! (A comedy group called "Eure Muetter" means “Your mother” is coming around to present their new program "Nix da "Leck mich!" Auf geht's!" that means "Shut up! Let us go!")</p>
 
<p><img src="http://images.stanzapub.com/readers/trifter/2008/01/07/98063_36.jpg" alt="" /></p>
 
<p>Mr. Pooper, do not poop here, please!</p>
 
<p><img src="http://images.stanzapub.com/readers/trifter/2008/01/07/98063_37.jpg" alt="" /></p>
 
<p>In the name of love, STOP!!!</p>
 
<p><img src="http://images.stanzapub.com/readers/trifter/2008/01/07/98063_38.jpg" alt="" /></p>
 
<p>If you let wheels and turtles roll into the bowl, you are not going to rocket away by the power of your bowel!</p>
 
<p><img src="http://images.stanzapub.com/readers/trifter/2008/01/07/98063_39.jpg" alt="" /></p>
 
<p>Oops, upside down ducks like swimming in the garbage ponds?!</p>
 
<p><img src="http://images.stanzapub.com/readers/trifter/2008/01/07/98063_40.jpg" alt="" /></p>
 
<p>Hmmm……..toilet for two headed female?!</p>
 
<p><img src="http://images.stanzapub.com/readers/trifter/2008/01/07/98063_41.jpg" alt="" /></p>
 
<p>For those who aim the best………probably this is the right place.</p>
 
<p><img src="http://images.stanzapub.com/readers/trifter/2008/01/07/98063_42.jpg" alt="" /></p>
 
<p>Wow, what kind of coffee is this?</p>
 
<p><img src="http://images.stanzapub.com/readers/trifter/2008/01/07/98063_43.jpg" alt="" /></p>
 
<p>Confused…….Non? Oui?</p>
 
<p><img src="http://images.stanzapub.com/readers/trifter/2008/01/07/98063_44.jpg" alt="" /></p>
 
<p>“WRONG WAY” or “GNORW YAW” ……???</p>
 
<p><img src="http://images.stanzapub.com/readers/trifter/2008/01/07/98063_45.jpg" alt="" /></p>
 
<p>The sign says in Spanish, “Jesus Christ is the remedy...?”</p>
 
<p><img src="http://images.stanzapub.com/readers/trifter/2008/01/07/98063_46.jpg" alt="" /></p>
 
<p>Oops … A tree with a BRA. Awesome though!</p>
 
<p><img src="http://images.stanzapub.com/readers/trifter/2008/01/07/98063_47.jpg" alt="" /></p>
 
<p>Hmmm… Does the sign that is located upside down means that one can queue across the intersection?</p>
 
<p><img src="http://images.stanzapub.com/readers/trifter/2008/01/07/98063_48.jpg" alt="" /></p>
 
<p>Perhaps this is not a good place to buy foods.</p>
 
<p><img src="http://images.stanzapub.com/readers/trifter/2008/01/07/98063_49.jpg" alt="" /></p>
 
<p>Female may feel nervous of using this restroom.</p>	

<p><img src="http://images.stanzapub.com/readers/trifter/2008/01/07/98063_0.jpg" alt="" /></p>
 
<p>Ideal place for one stop shopping: buy some real estates, get a haircut and a divorce for $99.</p>













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