Mike's Bogota Blog

' In less than 20 years, half of Bogotá's residents will be fat .' ( El Tiempo ) The media reports that obesity in Col...

Camel cigarette girls on the prowl today for young victims in La Candelaria. I was cycling across the Plaza del Periodista this afte...

' You could lose your baby by smoking .' Colombia is renewing its graphic cigarette warnings, which is a good thing, and lik...

A Colombian institution is about to disappear - and good riddance! Mustang cancer sticks are becoming Rothmans. Mustang cigarette...

Cigarettes for sale on a Bogotá street alongside chips and candy. Ship Colombian tobacco leaves to Chile to make them into cigaret...

Young people smoke on La Plaza del Chorro in La Candelaria.  If this post looks familiar, don't blame me. Blame the authorities...

Not advertising? A young boy mans a sidewalk sales stand offering candies and cigarettes, which are featured in a slick display ad. ...

 Horacio Cortes celebrates. The man is flooding Colombia and other nations with an illegal, addictive drug. He's been accuse...

Cigarette advertising is not advertising... To the long list of laws which are worth little more than the paper they're writ...

Lighting up an outlawed loosie in La Candelaria. Today was Tobacco-Free Day - a real misnomer if you observed the puffing on Bogotá...