Britain's Labor party's minister of health, Patricia Hewitt, lectured the British people on the public health consequences of the Iranians' actions:

"It was deplorable that the woman hostage should be shown smoking. This sends completely the wrong message to our young people."

Um, yeah, when British or Americans show their victims on TV they always make  sure they are completely extinguished.

‘I heard the order to pay attention because they were going to use white phosphorus on Fallujah. In military jargon it’s known as Whiskey Pete. Phosphorus burns bodies, in fact it melts the flesh all the way down to the bone … I saw the burned bodies of women and children. Phosphorus explodes and forms a cloud. Anyone within a radius of 150 metres is done for.’ 

Watch Falluja - The Hidden Massacre pt.1
This disturbing documentary by Sigfrido Ranucci examines evidence that the US military used chemical flesh eating weapons called white phosphorus on the people of Falluja in Iraq, even though such chemical weapons were banned, as well as being ostensibly the reason we had to remove Saddam as dictator of Iraq.