Bored Bono smoking again

U2 frontman Bono, who has spent the past two months recovering from an operation after injuring his back in an accident while preparing for a world tour, claims he took up his nicotine habit again because he was so bored.

Bored Bono smoking again

U2 frontman Bono, who has spent the past two months recovering from an operation after injuring his back in an accident while preparing for a world tour, claims he took up his nicotine habit again because he was so bored.

The singer, who played his first gig since the operation two weeks ago in Italy with bandmates The Edge, Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen Jr, said: "One of the things you can do when you're lying down like that is to write, so I wrote. Lying motionless I also had time to think about the future, because I never think about the past.

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