鈥淚鈥檓 not going to tap you on the shoulder and ask, 鈥榃hat are you smoking?鈥� if you are posing no menace to others. Our priority is alcohol.鈥�
Isabel Canelas of the Portuguese police, on how they plan to ignore people peacefully smoking cannabis during the European football championship (The Guardian, London, 11 June)
鈥淔or Members of Parliament to allow their names to be linked to promote fast food is seriously irresponsible.鈥�
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Steve Watkins of the British Medical Association on the 17 UK MPs who are enjoying a 拢20,000 trip to Portugal for the football championship, courtesy of the burger giant McDonald鈥檚 (Sunday Mirror, London, 13 June)
鈥淚 was in the kitchen doing breakfast and there was this almighty explosion.鈥�
New Zealander Brenda Archer on a 1.3-kilogram meteorite that crashed through the ceiling of her Auckland home, bounced off a sofa and hit the ceiling again (The Guardian, London, 14 June)
鈥淭he statistics could not be clearer; men are at far greater risk of developing and dying from cancer than women.鈥�
Peter Baker, director of the Men鈥檚 Health Forum, London, on a new finding that the incidence of 10 main cancers is 80 per cent higher in men than in women (The Independent, London, 14 June)
鈥淚t鈥檚 sort of an underwater museum of Japanese submarines. It鈥檚 a time capsule down on the seafloor.鈥�
Brett Phaneuf of Texas A&M University, College Station, on the discovery of the wreckage of a fleet of Japanese second world war submarines, kept secret by the US navy since it scuttled them in 1946 (HoustonChronicle.com, 14 June)