New Additions for June 07

June 30
Opinion from Rod Liddle about Liam Donaldson "Smoking ban zealot is bad for my health I intend to spend the rest of today handing out free cigarettes near the home of the chief medical officer, Sir Liam Donaldson, to highlight the grave dangers of Donaldson-related illnesses and passive Donaldson.
Sir Liam is the chap who believes today’s unjust and draconian smoking ban is “only a start” and wishes to pursue smokers into the family home. Despite evidence to the contrary, Donaldson believes passive smoking kills millions of people; but then his career has been built upon scaring people.
In 2005, for example, he predicted 50,000 Britons would die in an avian flu pandemic, and a death toll of 750,000 was “not impossible”. The total deaths from avian flu worldwide stand at 191, none of them in Britain.
The government should issue one of those spooky public information films, warning people to stay away from Donaldson. I would go further and ban him from all public spaces, though I can see the sense in allowing him to sit by himself in a sealed room, talking piffle.
Opinion - Put that light out! by Henry Midgley and a response by Edmund!
Smokey and the Banned-it - Barrow
Members' club bemoans smoking ban
LAST GASP FOR THE GREAT BRITISH PUB
'I WILL DEFY SMOKE BAN' - Tony Blows
SO WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO THEN, ARREST ME FOR SMOKING?
London's Arab quarter prepares for the worst as new English smoking ban dawns
Smoking ban: what the celebs say
Nurse killer jailed for life - She simply went out for a smoke
Poor people 'ignore' health campaigns
MAILBOX: SMOKERS THE SCAPEGOATS
MAILBOX: TRADITIONAL RIGHTS HAVE BEEN USURPED
Market smoking ban 'ash to be a wind-up' - Peterborough
Pub's jackets will help keep smokers warm
Rank fears smoking ban will hit Mecca bingo club profits
Forest- Smoke ban out of proportion to risk
Forest- We've lost battle but not the war
The fag end - Reasons for not giving up
The unhappy hookah
What a Pane - Council removes glass from bus shelter
Smokers 'to put on weight after ban'
‘Smoking Gestapo’ prepare to enforce ban – but only 9 to 5
Moorhead’s I-Beam bar to close doors tonight - Minnesota
Kanawha racetrack requests no exemption for smoking ban - West Virginia
Make it 'live and let live' regarding smoking - Pennsylvania
June 29 - An important day for British values
Legal challenge to smoking ban - Freedom2Choose - Legal challenge to ban on smoking
Legal challenge to smoking ban
Tobacco profits burn bright despite bans
Rank fears smoking ban will hit Mecca bingo club profits
Smokers prepare to light up at home + Hamish Howitt of the Happy Scots in Blackpool
Tobacco profits burn bright despite bans
Pubs, clubs brace for smoking ruins - Australia
Letter - Smoking Ban Is Misguided Fascism
June 28
FROM ASH - a link to Smoking ban welcomed by pubs BUT it's for sale!!!!
New Blog Link - Bernie's Burger Bar
Smoking ban lights up soaps
Smoking us out’ - Salford - Senior Servicemen
Letter - Innocent set to suffer the most
Ban did not hit sales of tobacco - Ireland
Letter - Alternatives to total ban
Travelodge is the first major hotel chain to quit smoking - One to avoid!
Minister urges easy line on smokers - Flint -However, Ms Flint said the advantage was that the Government had not appeared "heavy-handed" - making it easier to win the public's support. - Not heavy-handed!!!!!!!
All light up with the Pretty Things - new single released called All Light Up
Going, going... gone - Lament - Johnny Sharp
Pub's 'lock-in' for smokers - Otley
SMOKERS can light up at the Shay next season, despite the incoming ... - Home of Halfax Fotball & Rugby
Smoking ban will cut disease - Bolton
The Last Gasp - Summary of the situation
Ban on Smoking is Not a Magic Wand to Reduce Health Inequalities ... -- But ASH said it was!!!!
Love in the air after July 1, says survey
Smokers face care warning - May have to go to the GP for care
Smoking ban lights up human rights conflict - Community Care - Smoking ban lights up human rights conflict
Rovers' landlady quits smoking - She's 9 out of 10 chances of failing!!!
Fag ban creates a stink - Will the scents be safe?
Will pubs get stubbed out?
Lessons from Scotland on smoking ban - a touch biased
How’d we get here from there? - Interesting opinion
Hewitt quits as health secretary - Brief summary of a failed zealot
Quit aids boosted by smoke ban - Pharma's reward for its promotion of the ban
Partial smoking ban in prisons failed to reduce smoking - Canada
Top court to rule on constitutionality of tobacco laws - Canada - Top court upholds tobacco ad rules
June 27
Great Article - OUR FREEDOM HAS GONE UP IN SMOKE - Sue Carroll
A BID to save Scotland's bingo halls was launched at Holyrood ...
Britain's smoking ban sends brewers east as western markets go flat
FOREST Friend or Foe? and - Losing the plot, never mind the war and other articles on this Blog
FOREST - Adam Edwards joins a pack of rebellious smokers and pipemen for a ... and Thompson's all fired up
Magic wand - or fag end of hope-
Seeing through the smoking ban
Slash Will Keep Ignoring Smoking Ban
Pub becomes an embassy - Shame the Country is only a territory so it won't work!
Herefordshire licensee to defy ban - Tony Blows
John has to stub out his trick - Magician can't use cigarette trick!
Am I guilty of oldthink or is this sensefree?
Lung Association closing local office; Agency forced to shut 8 Ontario branches to make up for plummeting donations (From Smokers!!!)
Bar Owners Hope to Compromise on Smoking Ban - Fort Wayne
Exemptions Snuffing Out Statewide Smoking Ban - Harrisburg
June 26
Huffing and puffing - The FOREST Dinner
BATTLE AGAINST SMOKING WILL NOT STOP - Patricia Hewitt - Full of moral virginty & hate
Smoking ban is forcing us to close, says social club - Catterick
Bingo halls spell out effects of smoking ban to MSPs - Scotland - Bingo chiefs seek support over tax
Fighting the smoking ban - Jonathan Pushpa-Rajah, aka the Marlboro Martyr.
(Bill) WYMAN VOWS TO FLOUT SMOKING BAN
Pipe dream - Shisha Bars
Holy smoke - Shisha Bars
FOREST Dinner - Celebrity chef attacks smoking ban -
Life after ban won't be a drag - Lynn - BUT it will be cold, wet & windy and as expensive as sitting in the warm.
June 25
Today's editorial: 'A pint, no fag' - From the US
Will there be a showdown between OSHA and local politicians regarding workplace secondhand smoke levels?
Letter - Smoke claims overblown
WE'RE READY TO SMOKE OUT THE LAW-BREAKERS - This could be a 2-way street!! Fight back? - with comment
Report - Smoking Bans are Killing People
Over 60000 Healthcare professionals still smoke
James Delingpole: Smoking. Yes, yes, we know it's no good for you. But is it really so bad?
Smoking ban 'will cost businesses thousands'
Smokers in last gasp stand & Forest calls for exemptions to smoking ban
Driven away! - Belfast - "Many of our members are facing serious difficulties with the smoking ban and this is the last thing we need."
Landlords are fuming at ban - Swindon - with comment
Pubs’ outside smoking areas ‘not ready’
Literature that Smokes - Books in flip-top packs
SMOKING BAN IN SIX DAYS BUT WILL YOU STOP? - Derbyshire
Slash escapes fine as CIA blamed for flouting smoking rules - Wales (not the CIA CIA!) - “The primary responsibility lies with the business to prevent smoking from taking place in the venue.”
(Paul) WELLER FACES LEGAL ACTION OVER CIGARETTE
Nicotine patches and gum to be sold in pubs
New Aroma To Replace Stale Smoke In Clubs - Have these chemical cocktails been tested?
Letter - Ban is hurting bars - Ohio
20 amendments await smoking ban - US Harrisburg
Opinion - In Defense of Second Hand Smoke - Hawii
June 24
Pub chain shares splutter ahead of smoking ban
(Howard) Marks flouts smoking ban - Wales
It's no go for alfresco - Bromsgrove
Things look pretty black for Guinness
Pubs give notice of intent to fight signs
Cigarette sales are predicted to rise as ban on packs of 10 misfires - Ireland
June 23
Freedom2Choose Video
Poor people 'ignore' health campaigns - Interesting & valid concerns from Michael Marmot, a professor of epidemiology at University College London
Richard Ingrams' Week: Why is no one willing to fight the smoking ban? - But They ARE! It's not PC so it's not news.
Prepare for boredom and BO - Rod Liddle
Letter - Our once free country is turning into a dictatorship
Cherie cig boss- PM is an a-hole - Someone had the guts to say it
Race, fairness argued in court - Winnepeg
June 22
Article - Undercover Economist: The true cost of smoking
Scottish smoking ban hits Inspired Gaming Group sales
Ban threatens famous pipe smoking competition - Egremont, NW England
People in wealthier areas are living longer - Peterborough - with comment
Opinion - None so deaf as those that will not hear
Opinion - Alas, poor Britain. The best name for it is Absurdistan
Opinion - The zombie health inspectors should be replaced
CHERIE'S CIG FIGHT CHOKER
Smoke ban profits drop warning - Powys
Two oddly different stories from one paper -New era dawns for pubs - Outdoor area smoking ban removed
Smoking ban cuts businesses both ways - Cincinatti
June 21
Latest ONS Survey - http://www.statistics.gov.uk/downloads/theme_health/smoking2006.pdf
Opinion - Denied a perfect pleasure - Lindesay Irvine with comment
‘It should be about what you have to offer to the children’ - Response to no fostering for smokers
Anger over refusal for smoking area - Kettering, Northamptonshire - with comment
Pub companies to suffer as July smoking ban comes in, claims poll - A more balanced interpretation of the recent YouGov Poll
Nightclub Boss Hires Cherie .. to fight tony's smoking ban
Shelters hit by smoking ban - Manchester
July Smoking Ban Set To Slash Beer Sales - Sky News
Move to outlaw pub banter - Inmates and Asylum come to mind
Original Famous Sam's set to close - Arizona
Comment - State to smokers- Go home and stay there - new Hampshire
Smokers to be snuffed out at university - Australia - Non-smokers given precedence
EDITORIAL - Last bastion falls - Winnipeg - "Now, for the first time, the nation's coddled cigarette-smoking civil servants will have to huddle in the summer rain, shiver in the winter cold outside their office buildings, out in the open, far from the wind-shelters offered by doorways, just like ordinary smokers have had to do for years."
Letter - Most bars, eateries already smoke-free - US
June 20
Ban on smokers fostering under-5s
BBC crews film Chard pub
ASHRAE Publishes New Standard 62.1 - "new standard includes requirements for the separation of areas with environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) from areas without ETS in the same building"
Will there be a showdown between OSHA and local politicians regarding workplace secondhand smoke levels?
Peer reviewed and BMJ published secondhand smoke test results confirm there is NO workplace air quality hazard
Smoking at home' falls 25%' since ban - Another CRUK ( CROOK ) Study
Smoke ban's 'environment threat' - London
Smoking ban leads to environmental row - Scotland
The Queen Vic gets a smoking ban revamp -
People told not to smoke in own homes - Norwich
Letter -Article distorted financial impact - Arizona
Smoke ban cited in jobless rise - Nevada
US bingo halls sue over smoking ban - Louisville
June19
Non-smoking landlord braced for High Court ban battle - Robert Feal-Martinez of Freedom2Choose (dot co dot uk)
UK- Notable Decline In Scottish On Trade Alcohol Sales Since ...
Tories to set out health plans - "Recent legislation to ban smoking in public places has won widespread public support, despite earlier concerns that it represents excessive 'nannying' by the legislators,"
Article - The sheer hell of bossy Britain
'Go To Work On An Egg' advert banned for failing to promote balanced diet --- !!!!!!!!
On stage smoking banned - Ulster changes it's mind
Most favour extending smoke ban - IrishHealth.com - but not a big 'most'
Nevada unemployment rises above national average - Many losses blamed on the smoking ban
Smoking ban is all but snuffed out - Roanoke VA
Moose Lodge prepares for charitable bingo - Arizona
Holy smoke! Lutheran congregations allow smoking by teens at confirmation camp - Finland
Honda modifies tobacco-free policy to avoid safety hazards - Ohio
June 18
BBC report damns its ‘culture of bias’
Mental health patients 'need extra anti-smoking support' - Maybe they need to concentrate on their illnesses
Smoking Ban "Set To Slash Beer Sales" - How can this be? The anti-smoking gang said trade wouldn't be damaged!!!
Third of bosses to axe cigarette breaks when smoking ban arrives - Is an oppressed employee likely to work hard? and Firms plan smoking breaks crackdown
Smokers face ban in own homes - Liverpool
Smokers left out in the rain - Worcester
2003 smoking ban stopped smokers, but not diners - Florida - but they still allow smoking in stand alone bars
June 16/17
OUR LEGAL CHALLENGE IS LAUNCHED - Freedom2Choose.co.uk
• Shadow Home Secretary David Davis is to attend a protest 'smoke-in' by MPs in the Commons Smoking Room on the eve of the smoking ban in public places on July 1. Perversely, knuckleduster Davis does not smoke but wants to show his solidarity with militant puffers.
Murder jury in fag row - Glasgow
Zac's still smoking - Richmond
Pubs warned over cigarette butts
Retail round up -The Sunday Papers - "English publicans have been served notice that they can expect to see beer sales slump by four per cent after the introduction of next month's smoking ban. ..."
EXCLUSIVE Soap chiefs offer stars free help to quit cigs
Pub landlords reveal plans for smoking ban - York + Comment
Fags for the memories - Channel 4 programme planned
Smoking ban to stub out bingo- Lynn
No smoking. No this. No that. And no more signs, please
Common sense isn't all that common
Letter - No smoke-free rights
Wife's Tongue Severed In Fight Over Smoking - Minneapolis
Bloomington looks at reversing smoking ban - US
Local clubs join fight against smoking ban - Ohio
Ban leaves Billiards behind the eight ball - US, Columbia
A bit of Clear-Air Technology minus Repace - Air curtains for air quality - High Technology Modular Air Curtains - The Tornex TX15
EDITORIAL: State smoking ban a misguided plan - Michigan
June 15 - (Off for a couple of days - Catch up on Sunday)
£250 to put chairs on pavements - Cumbria
Smoke ban in council staff’s own vehicles - Lancashire
CHURCHES FUME AT SMOKING BAN SIGNS
Smoke-filled bars a relic of the past - New Mexico
Letter - Smoke alarm
June 14
My life as a smoker - A contented commentary by author Alan Sillitoe
'No smoking ban in my pub' - Hamish in Blackpool
Haunted house - Scotland - Inverclyde - Bingo
COURT PUNISHES MESSY SMOKERS - Paisley
Rain-drenched smokers ordered to 'dry up' - Ulster
Obese people will not be denied operations - Norfolk
Computer blows out smoking-related death figures with no real human facts. Is this how they work it all out - 1992 but a good read
Council smoking stance frustrates hoteliers - US Rocky Mountains
Fake Smoking Ban Facts - US - Could have been much more damning of many more lies
Man allegedly severed wife’s tongue, windpipe in smoking fight - US, La Crosse
Smoking- State can act without a sweeping ban on businesses - Lancing State - A good argument for no state intervention until the last 2 paras that ask fo it
June 13
Letter - Demonisation of smokers must stop - Nick Jones UKIP
Scottish Ban Damage from the SLTA
The verdict is in: Smoking bans hurt the hospitality business. - US
New Nanny State Push in Britain - A view from the States
HOCKNEY SMOKING BAN BLAST - "Picasso and Matisse smoked and lived to a ripe old age. They didn't have dreary people telling them what to do."
LETTER - WHAT ABOUT SMOKERS' RIGHTS? - from a 75 year old ex-smoker
EU set to turn traditional cigarettes into fire-safe smokes - From Scotland
Trial set for smoke ban accused - Scotland
WE WANT GPS OPEN NIGHTS & WEEKENDS - Scotland - Bueaucrat wants others to work harder!!!!!!!!
End is nigh for this column of smoke - Fun Article
Drinking habits changing - Industry overview
Gone up in smoke! - suggestion of a possible survey into the danger of smoking and driving
Neighbours winning smoking battle with pub - Islington
Smoking becomes the new outdoor activity - Welwyn & Hatfield
Nesting birds help stop smoking - Silly little Item
Smoking ban repeal- - Bloomington
Fun slowly being outlawed - Southern Illinois Uni
Local restaurateurs want to decide smoking issue - Michigan
Need a smoke- Take it . . . south - US- Farmington - Ban in most OUTDOOR places
Belmont smokers lose big - US Belmont
Local clubs join fight against smoking ban - Ohio
Ohio smokers jumping across state line to light up - Ohio
June 12
NAIRN BINGO HALL CLOSES ITS DOORS - Scotland
HEALTH CHIEF'S OUTRAGE OVER POSTER VANDAL - "I would rather have a nanny state than have cancer,"
Smoking ads 'do not always work'
Big Brother targets smokers after fag ban - AND - "Secret police" threat from new smoking snoopers - A Tory View
Not on our land, NHS tells smokers - Worcestershire
Firms in a fog over 'no-smoking’ signs and Smoking ban – a recipe for legal confusion-
No surgery for smokers - Bolton
Smoking ban violates human rights - Norway and Norway county: Smoking a basic human right
Food and alcohol sales up, gambling income down after smoking ban - US Tacoma
Patrons avoid watering hole - Arizona
Gamblers betting less on Atlantic City - New Jersey
Pa.'s slots, NJ's smoking ban hurting Atlantic City
Going 'all Taliban' on the smokers - Canada
Business owners say smoking ban causing loss of income US, KY
According To State, WA's Smoking Ban Has Minimal Effect On Business - US, Olympia, WA - others disagree

June 11
Fire Staff Face Strict Cigs Ban - County Durham
Should businesses in England have to display No Smoking signs next ...
Council knocks back pub terraces - Lancashire
Hockney hails 'fresh' Turner art - includes condemnation of smoking ban
Smoke ban reveals stink at club - York - But what's the dangers of synthetic 'fragrances'?
Not such a full house and Bingo layoffs expected
Gala Coral expect to close bingo clubs
Hospitals to have smoking shelters - Wales - even in times of insanity some sense is shown
Smoking banned at bus shelter - York
EU plan to ban smoking outside is a dangerous breach of your liberty
Ex-Pulp Jarvis Cocker Against England Smoking Ban; Need "Fag Breaks"
More Smokers Barred From Adopting Children - Latest Step In Movement To Protect Kids From Smoke - UK Hampshire
Prepare to be ostracised, all you smokers of England - a smug article from a Scot
Pub patio heaters for smokers will produce 'as much pollution as a ...
Smoking ban likely to cost hundreds of bingo club jobs
A few more nails in the Union's coffin - (second short article)
Surf's up; After 60 years, legendary South Beach venue is closed ... - Staten Island
Letter - Letter- Enclosed smoking section would solve smoking ban
Bill Reverses Hawaii's Smoking Ban in Bars, Nightclubs and Restaurants - Hawaii - "A U.S. Supreme court decision during the early 1970's ((Lloyd Corp v. Tanner, 407 U.S. 551 (1992)) said a place of business does not become public property because the public is invited in."
Banned from the workplace, smokers bond in exile - Canada
Businesses fear total smoke ban - US, Charleston WV
Pokie palaces move into aged care - Australia
Smoke-free 'coffee shops' in Amsterdam- Holland
Local lawmaker proposes compromise as alternative to smoking ban in public places - US York County, PA
Flight attendants feel wrath of fliers - US
Gloverville Business Man Smoking Mad at County Council Over Smoking Ban - US
Judge dismisses smoking complaint against Ripley restaurant - US Charlston
June 10
Small pubs must adapt their toilets, menus and outlook - Scotland - "A survey by credit management firm Avance has found that seven out of 10 Scots landlords said last year's smoking ban had created financial problems."
Sweet child of Woodbine - Slash in Wales
Anti-smoking groups attack tobacco gel that beats the ban - With Comment
Retailers attack 'soft' shoplifting decision - A thief can be let off the fine if the promise to be good - BUT we've got to be hard on smokers
Warning- Nanny state may be hazardous to your freedom - Comment from the US
Business profile: Adams won’t kick the BAT habit and Tough at top for BAT smokers
“Hypocritical” Parliament blasted for allowing smoking
Lights out - US - Columbus
‘No one is going to run’ - Kansas
Regional bar owners in a funk over proposed smoking ban - Edmonton Canada
Opinion - Recipe for disaster
Gaming sector under a cloud - Australia
June 9
Keith Waterhouse - It's all more work for the BBB to do
Pub’s betting future - Lancashire - Pub adds Betting Shop
WAISTBANDS FEEL STRAIN AS SMOKERS QUIT - Lincolnshire
EARLY LIGHTING UP BAN FOR INMATES - Hull
Smoking ban stubbed out! - Blackpool - "Hamish Howitt, who runs the Happy Scots in Rigby Road, today invited every smoker in the town to head to his bar on July 1"
The Magna Carta Society - Defence of the Realm - A long but thought provoking read
Will smoking ban kill pubs- - King's Lynn - Real fear
'Ban won't stop people smoking' - Watford
Pub can keep giant umbrellas - for now - Hartlepool - They consult neighbours but Government never consulted smokers about the ban
Loss-making Wick social club to close - John O'Groats
Beer firm spends £4m on smokers - Fullers - Government said it would be £(minimal)
Last call for UK's bingo halls- "In Scotland, 21 clubs have already closed" - with comment
Smoking ban - it's really nothing new! - "The ban is like lots of other pieces of legislation – it looks all right on paper, it sounds all right as well but it is only when it comes to enforcing it and putting it into practice that what has been blindingly obvious to the ordinary man hits the blinkered politicians in the face."
Smoking ban will slash mouth cancer - Absolute crap when you read the article - with comment
Slash in hot water for lighting up - not a medical instruction!!!!! - Wales
Sydney's traffic pollution could kill more people than road accidents - Lord Mayor
Smoking exemptions not the exception in Tinley Park - Illinois
Area bar owners seek ideas; seeing loss of business from smoking ban - Arizona
JONAH GOLDBERG: England goes to war over wine
Smoking Ban Doesn't Apply to Festivals - US - Fort Wayne
Our view- Proposal on smoking goes too far - Pennsylvania
Funding from tobacco industry sparks new ban at university - Canada Edmonton
Puffing places to go poof? - bay area, Oakland - "..........banning smoking in all newly constructed apartment buildings and condominium complexes and would declare secondhand smoke a public nuisance in multi-family housing............"
June 7/8
(Joe) COCKER AGAINST ENGLAND SMOKING BAN
Smokers in deprived areas struggle to quit - Scotland
It's war over pub smokers - Islington
Smokers sparking fury in the tea rooms - Chichester
PAVEMENT TABLE BOOZE BAN FURY - North West
`I'm just off out to watch TV' - Yorkshire
NHS smokers 'witch-hunt' denied
Smokers can't adopt under-fives
Opinion - These medical moralisers might as well try banning sex
Shelters redundant as NHS trust bans smoking - UK - No real reason they just want to make things even more difficult for smokers
The final gasp . . . followed by the first sniff - Comment by Amelia Fox
Scottish winters may cause high heart disease rate, say scientists - Read between the lines for some info
Smokers in deprived areas struggle to quit - Scotland - AND now they've got fewer pubs, clubs and bingo halls to go to for their pleasure!
Final eyes down for bingo hall punters - Nairn, Scotland
Smoking wake - Devon
Shiver at the pub doorway, you smokers - Haliax (UK)
Delay sought on smoking ban - Louisville
Wake-up call - Montreal Gran Prix & Tobacco losses
Bar & Grill fighting smoking ban in court - Nevada
Ohio Bar Owners Say Smoking Ban Is Snuffing Out Business - Ohio
Bar owners want exemption to smoking ban - Ohio
Spillway Lanes bowling alley closes - US - Springfield
June 6 - (Back in a couple of days)
Comment - Selective fears
The Next Steps In Social Engineering - Freedom2Choose
Trouble for Chard pub - May close due to ban
Fag butts can kill fish
Changes Proposed To Smoking Ban - Ohio
Smoking ban leads to Phoenix stabbing
Bar Owners Push To Repeal Parts Of Smoking Ban - Cincinati
First They Came for the Smokers - US - CA
New Smoking Ban - US AL - "But the children ask that we passed it, so we passed it. ..."!!!!!!!!
Alabaster council stops short of smoking ban, explores other options - US AL
Smoke-free: But not living free - US New Hampshire
June 5
Smoke free: But not living free
New petition at http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/PublicSmokeRoom/
MPS IGNORE THEIR SMOKING BAN
'Crave to quit' industry takes off as the smoking ban looms
Smoke free stations from 1 July -
Call for ID cards to enforce new cigarette age-limit
Stubbi trial at town pub - Weston-S-Mare
Booze licences under threat
NO CIGS UNTIL YOU'RE 18 - Scotland
Northern Ireland to relax ban - On Stage
Hostility proven to hurt your lungs - Government has caused hostility & poor lung function?
Letter - Proposed ban will affect bar - Canada
Group opposed to smoking ban meets Tuesday - Arizona
Group seeks vote to soften smoke ban - Ohio
June 4
Craving to quit builds market worth £100m - "When the smoking ban came into effect in Scotland, 46,000 Scots, or one smoker in 20, gave up." ???
Smoking ban £100m over budget
Telegraph succombs to tabloid journalism
Smoking ban relaxation for actors - Ulster
Clubbers who smoke forced to wear wristbands - Wales
Feathers fly at the Blackbird - Planning Failure
Smoking can seriously age your looks. Check out the proof! - with comment
Bring Me Your Poor, Huddled Smokers
Letter - Smoke ban's a real stinker!
Smoking in cars 'could increase after ban'
BingoScotland.com Realistic About Smoking Ban
What the Sunday papers said -
No 'smoking police' in West End - Not pro-active - They've spent their money
EU targets huddling smokers' last haven: the office doorway
The secret plans to turn us all vegetarian - Nutty, Nutty, Nutty, Nutty,
1m pupils' dabs filed in schools -
Paul Lessard: Who will be the next victim of the legislative storm troopers
Opinion - Smoking bans not based on scientific findings
Smoking ban keeps controversy stirred up - Pennsyvania
Bloomington should repeal smoking ban
Opinion - Let businesses decide for themselves
June 3
Hundreds of pubs to flout smoking ban
New platform for smokers - Hexham
Tobacco fails screen test as Holyrood bids to give smoking an 18 certificate at the cinema - Scotland - with comment
NHS trust to warn smokers- no surgery until you quit - Leicester City West Primary Care Trust
Barroom smokers raise toast to reprieve - Nashville
Minnie’s members have their privileges - Fort Wayne - something so popular will die?
State now more of a nanny - Tennessee
June 2
Smoke ban to hit pub trade
Comments - With smoking fines and excise on tobacco, the Government has its ...
Smoking ban costs will be £100m over budget - And the Partial Regulatoty Impact Assessment claimed it would be minimal!!!!
No 'smoking police' in West End - "cost of implementing the smoking ban in London alone could exceed the original £50million estimate."
Letter - We should have had a vote on smoking ban - Wales
Bingo hall in fight for survival - Scotland
Young smokers more likely to be obese, study finds - Ireland - !!!!
Beer inflation highest since 2004 - to pay for the ban??
Bar switches to smoking - Fort Wayne - Smoke-eaters and ventilation installed
Times Writers Group- Smoking ban comes at high cost - minneapolis - "According to Sue Jeffers, Minneapolis bar owner and political activist, 114 bars and restaurants have closed in the Minneapolis area in the past two years"
The Mistakes of Aught-six - Fun article
Yes, Prime Minister — we're a nation in authority's grip - Australia
Will health concerns force you to ban the barbecue- - Florida
Vegas cigar lounges roll out the welcome mat
Letter - Government to people, "We know whats best." - Minnesota
June 1
Survival tactics
£80 fine for throwing a cigarette end
Liberties go up in smoke
'Ban Will Lead To More Smoking Behind Wheel'
Concern over plan to let clubbers smoke outdoors - Watford
Some Businesses Stand to Benefit from Smoking Bans - Wane IL. - (just outside of Ohio)
Hiding ciggies 'is mad' - NZ
UN says no smoking, but ban not honored
Trolleys, Buses To Enforce No Smoking Rule - Sandiego
Deadline to stop smoking in prison dropped - West Virginia
Johnson- It'll Do latest 'mom, pop' bar to fall to smoking ban - Colorado
Smoking ban passes but exempts bars - Tennessee
Tavern group ready to fight . US, PA