Up in smoke -- The ban twenty years on.

                                         Philip Guston -- The Studio 1969 -- New York 

Each of these lessons are based on topics ranging from mural artists, NFTS, or Superblock cities. These readings and exercises and based around what is now a ban on smoking that came into place twenty years and leda to another twenty countries placing bans which changed many cultures in a positive way. 

We will look at idioms with SMOKE -- such as UP IN SMOKE, No Smoke without fire, up in smoke, put it in your pipe and smoke it,  blowing smoke. 

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 Class duration – One - 2 hour session \ Number of students – 1 – 4 

The majority of corrections are given in real time during the online class with notes taken and written in the CHAT option in Microsoft teams, google MEET or skype. 

Ireland’s smoking ban 20 years on: how an unheralded civil servant triumphed against big tobacco | Health | The Guardian

NOTES - 

IDIOM - Up in smoke ---Ending in failure, ruin, or collapse. The entire business is up in smoke following a series of catastrophic investment blunders. .

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VOCAB – Ushered in – brought in with quietly, proxies – related in some way, a chain smoker – a person who smokes one after another, headstrong – determined, a flock of seagulls, to flout – openly disregard a rule.\\\\

out·land·ish – [aʊtˈlandɪʃ]- adjective – looking or sounding bizarre or unfamiliar: