February 2007

February 28
Nicotine replacement therapy dramatically improves quit rate - A claim of 12% quit rate for NRT or should that be an 88% failure rate!!
PM, Wed 28th Feb - New Scottish Housing Act better for tenants or ... - Easier to ban smoking in rented accommodation
People still in the dark at 'lighting up' ban
Restaurant smoking ban fails in Senate
Miami Valley Bar Owners Sound Off
Don’ t force me. I’m open to persuasion - Comment in The Times
Editorial- Cutting cigarette scenes won't end teen smoking
State officials get an earful at public hearing - Columbus
OUR OPINION : Move to ban smoking takes on air of a crusade - US - Grand Forks
Restaurant smoking slowly extinguished - Smoke-free by CHOICE
The CBC has a dirty secret - They have smoking rooms
Paducah restaurant owner may close due to smoking ban
Tavern owners lobby at Capitol - US - Appleton
Tempers flare at hearing on Ohio’s smoking ban - and - New Ohio smoking law fires up foes
Open hospital's windows to prevent spread of TB, say researchers - Ventilation is ok for TB but not ETS
Actress Linda slams closure of bingo hall
Struggling D.C. bars miss the smokers, their cash
Oswego cab company shutting down - Not as many people going to bars
Inmates in no-smoking U.S. prison free hostage in exchange for cigarettes
Hal Wastes His Wages You can't handle the truth - US - City of Hoboken - about the Bar Industry
February 27
Commonsense for Britain - UKIP says it would scrap assembly
Hidden cancer epidemic is set to claim 200,000 lives - UK Asbestos
Rural pubs will suffer from smoking ban
Anger Management
Close your door to the mafia tax collectors in the town hall - not smoking but a good read
Group says city is campaigning against smoking proposition - Anchorage
Smoking ban controversy - Anchorage
Bar patrons, workers react to ban - Baltimore
TK O'Malleys restaurants up for sale - Massachusetts
Struggling DC bars miss the smokers, their cash - Washington
Lawmakers nix bill to expand ban - Dakota
Keeping research smoke-free - not a mention of Pharma-free funding
Smokers urged to quit before having NHS operations - Wales
COMMISSIONER OBJECTS TO SMOKING BAN - Isle of Man - 2000 carcinogens in 1 ciggie?
Smoking shed could earn firm a packet - would you put cattle in one of these?
Chick Young's view - Yellow card for pretending to smoke a cigar!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Number of dementia sufferers set to rise sharply - cost of £17billion but Nicotine protects smokers!!!
Smoking ban likely to pit taverns against restaurants - Ohio + comment
February 26
Spot the propaganda- The Big Question: Have the bans on smoking in public places been a success? - Emailed writer with a few webpages!!
Grandmother plasters her opinions all over her van
Letter - Bucking Big Guv - Virginia
Company Car Drivers Hit By Smoking Ban
Smoking ban opponents challenge city on language details
Airport to put up smoking shelters - US, South Bend
Oldest bingo caller in town - Wolverhampton club closes
Letter - Don’t like smoke- Then get out - Wisconsin
Students speak out in smoking ban survey - US - Carnegie Mellon University
HELPING OUT THE SMOKERS - Derbyshire
LATEST NEWS Smoking ban protest set - Ohio
February 25
In defense of smokers
Local bar owners respond - US - Fargo
Atlantic City streak at end? - ? Casino revenues down.
A step on the road toward communism
February 24
Publican Party seeks to smoke out voters - Scotland
Battle to stop them calling last orders
Va. House passes `Smoking permitted' sign legislation - Smoke-friendly + smoke-free
Bar Finds Opportunity Outside City Limits - Columbia
Smokescreen for Hypocracy
Forget blinding the horse, that cigarette is utterly offensive
Countywide smoking ban only symbolic in value - Excellent Editorial
February 23
New Irish Smoking Rates - It's on the UP
Nurse murder sparks smoking ban battle
MR Onions to close its doors after 23 years at end of March - Bermuda
Alberta jails ban nicotine patches after inmates light up
Va. House passes 'Smoking permitted' sign legislation
NEWS9 Tests Secondhand-Smoke Levels In Local Bars- Virginia Also - Device Won’t Be Used For Smoking Ban
Smoke ban call runs out of puff - Australia
Rural pubs shutting down at rate of more than one per day - Ireland and - Steep decline in trade hits rural pubs
Publican Party seeks to smoke out voters - Scotland
Glasgow sets limit on street furniture
The Passive Smoke Whopper
Smoke ban costs clubs - US - Salt Lake
Butt-end of the no smoking ban - with comment
Smokers' rooms for pubs - Cameron Blog
Naperville delays smoking talk
Minister’s miles take the biscuit - not particularly smoking but ......
Panel lets smoking ban stay in place - Hawii
'The night-time litter remains a headache' - Not just cigarette ends!!!
February 22
Government cock-up on smoking ban
Opinion - Lighten up, and let the patients light up
Your views: Ban actors smoking in films - Great comments
Anger at plan for clubs to open to public - Save the clubs - Kill the Pubs?
POLITICIAN'S ATTITUDE IS A REAL DRAG - No it isn't - at least the UKIP leader is no hypocrite
Bingo club bid for 'cig shack' to beat the ban
Bingo hall closure protest
Calling time on pubs-
Gratiot County board rejects smoking ban - US
Bar visit prompts allegation, denial - US
Smokers, business people rally against Fort Wayne ban
Your turn- Tell lawmakers your opinion on smoking ban - Minnesota Survey
Indiana House rejects smoking bill - Smoking in cars
Bingos being resurrected here - Canada
Smokers fuming over ban
Letter - Reader Viewpoint: Smoking-ban bill goes too far
£10M SMOKE BAN WARNING - "On a rainy afternoon in city centre pubs, with no outdoor shelter, you simply cannot smoke. That causes an unavoidable decline."
Burnham-On-Sea pub's new decking area runs into planning problems
House committee OK's statewide smoking ban - But two business owners in Springfield -- which banned public smoking in September -- say their businesses are losing money and they might have to go out of business.
Pubs catch smoke ban chill - Dundee
Opinion - Making criminals
February 21
Report on second-hand smoke deaths may mislead public
SMOKING will be banned on boats and ships in UK waters, the ...
Bingo hall here planning relocation - Canada - Brockville - lost 35% of patrons
Smoke-free halls could hurt gambling revenues - Vancouver
Smoking ban rejected in Gratiot - US
Confusion reigns over smoking ban in public places - UK - Bolton
Tabcorp says smokes ban hurts - Australia - 21.5% loss of profits
Geneva rejects smoke ban -US Kane County
Smoking ban burns out in Tri-Cities - Chicago
Hospitals ask if they should ban smoking outside - Wales - ASK!!!!!
City Council to revisit smoking ban -Tuscaloosa - Provisions could be made for restaurants with large bars, good ventilation
Put that in your pipe and smoke it! - Harpole, Northamptonshire -Last year for Pipe Contest?
Letter - Easy calls, maybe
Smoking ban snuffed out - Michegan, Traverse
February 20
Smokers, snoopers and the cloud of uncertainty - FOREST & ASH responses to A sad addiction to anti-smoking
Tobacco industry sees anti-smoke actions die away
Tobacco firm wins payout appeal
Smokers hear call to sue city over ban - US Fort Wayne
Cigarettes kill, so do a lot of other things - Great comment
Tobacco black market is smoking hot in California prisons - $125 a pack!!!
Senate Panel OKs Smoking Ban With Loophole for Ventilated Bars - South Dakota
Your Views - Ban actors smoking in films and Smoking in the movies is harmful to teens
Cigarette ban details lost in the smoke, claims survey
Tobacco restrictions under assault - Canada advertising
Senate panel weakens smoking ban bill - MINNESOTA LEGISLATURE:
Awards for Smoke-free Homes - Lincolnshire
Landlords rush to create ousmoking areas - Norwich
I CAN SAVE CASH ON 'SMOKING POLICE'
Fresh air smokers - Leeds
Anti- smoking exaggeration - Campaign warns of 'smoker's face' - Now it's 4,000 TOXINS
Government has ‘lost its marbles’
Letter - Dale M. Schultz: Smoking ban hurts blue-collar folks
February 19
Do Cancer Deaths Relate to Smoking Rates MAP
Jobsworths’ paradise
Is Your Medicine Dangerous to Your Health? - Drug Companies scared they'll lose profits!
Politics Plays Role in Disease Research - or Who controls & who profits?
I couldn't be First Minister without my asthma drugs - "the First Minister is not one of the 80% of people with asthma who say tobacco smoke makes their asthma worse."
Allen sings with attitude
An Open Rebellion- Customers light up in defiance of Hawaii's ban ...
Letter - Smokers, snoopers and the cloud of uncertainty
Opinion - The no-smoking Nazis are such a drag
Heavy-handed plans for "town hall Taliban"
Palatine officials consider changes to smoking ban
Smoking ban is no longer helping people give up - Scotland
In defence of us ‘proper’ smokers
Huff and puff in the Lords at bottom of page
Chain smokers likely to lose shelters at under-fire pub
Smoking outside brings policing problems - Colorado
February 18
Something Stinks Alright, But It's Not The Smoke - F2C
Ban cigarettes, not smoking... if you're serious
The Smokin’ History of Oberlin
Save Your Local! - CAMRA
The no-smoking Nazis are such a drag
Letter - Smokers' 'fix' helps driving safety
Full house from outside as bingo beats ban
Sins ain't what they used to be - Not really smoking but it sums quite a lot up!
February 17
PUB BACKING ANTI-BAN BID with reference to www.Freedom2 choose.co.uk
These busybodies will be the death of us smokers - Quite funny.
Smoking ban money could be better spent
A sad addiction to anti-smoking
Will smoking ban be death of bingo- - Wales - as many as 200 clubs across Britain could close - Some 14 bingo halls have closed in Scotland
CHEAP BOOZE AND SMOKING BAN 'WILL CLOSE DOWN PUBS'
COMMUNITY COMMENTARY- It's time to end the anti-smoking witch hunt
What smoking ban- Some bars defy new law - Hawii
Smut prince hangs up his apron in American diner - "But the smoking ban is the last straw for me and I'm getting out."
No Smoking on Safari!
Ordinance may be back to ‘square one' - US - Brenham
NO 'SMOKING POLICE' PLEASE
You’re nicked- Policing smokers is a waste of money says WC Fowles
Thousands of warnings issued since smoking ban - coincidence that this should be reported as £29.5 million is provided for smoke police
Great Letter - Smoker questions motives of those who complain
Gemany may ban smoking while driving
Alternative to banning smoking- - Tax credits for voluntarily smokefree venues - Makes sense
February 16
New consultation on smoking restrictions on vessels - UK
Where can I smoke?
Smoke detectors - with comment
Rooftop revellers - Nightclub's smoking terrace plan prompts concern - Bedford
Quit smoking help at bingo - Now Mecca want to send their patrons on quit smoking courses!!!!!!!
Ban goes up in smoke - India
February 15
No smoking enforcers 'will snoop' + Council spies to police smoking ban
Early smoking ban is shelved - Hartlepool
Smoking ban hits bingo house calls - Scotland - One in Ten are closed - This is 270,000 smokers and non-smokers left out in the cold
Letters -Smoking bans destroy economies and A phantom menace that cannot be shown to exist
City makes U-turn on plans to clamp down on cafe culture - Glasgow
EU Parliament’s backtracking on smoking ban undermines smokefree directive proposals - ASH get angry AND EU repeals smoking ban after only 43 days
Mental health patients need smoke-protection too - with comment
UK market proves to be tough for Diageo - Drinks giant blames Scottish smoking ban and other factors for decline
Consumers 'ignorant' over smoking ban - lots think they will be able to smone in pubs & clubs
Funds to be paid back - Wichita Falls
February 13/4
Smoke group gets political ally - UKIP - UKIP Website
EU legislators disobey own smoking ban
Sobering times for Ireland's rural pubs
Access ruling prevents smoking shelter’s use - but Dundee Council gave planning permission?????
Lawmakers stub out smoking exemption bill for mom-and-pops - Denver
Opinion - Smoking regulations reflect society, limit personal rights
Opinion - Too much of a good thing
Bad weather, not ban, is hurting revenue, health board member says
£110 fines for the pubs that don't clear up litter
Smoking ban is no longer helping people give up
Assisted-living centers required to bar smoking - New Jersey
Smoking ban comes in for tougher scrutiny; exemptions likely - LaCrosse
Bad weather, not ban, is hurting revenue, health board member says
'Twenty-six pubs a month' close + 1300 pubs face closure threat
Firms to be held responsible for cigarette butts
Would you kindly go outside to not smoke?
Rank Will Shut Nine Bingo Clubs Before Smoking Bans + Smoke ban leads Rank to shut ten bingo clubs
Letter - People have right to smoke
Cigarette ban threat to pub's pipe contest - 150 years of tradition up in smoke from the BNP
Smoking ban challenged - Colorado
'Hugging my dad gave me terminal cancer' -Asbestos as a child
Doctors who ban surgery for smokers are right, says Hewitt

February 12
Downtown restaurant now smoke free - Grand Rapids
Anti-smoking legislation did not seek to ban school laboratory experiments - By Andy Kerr, health minister - Scotland
Clampdown on cafe culture - Scotland
February 11
Many lung cancer cases in non-smokers: study - Maybe they should be looking for alternatve causes of cancer- Why just tobacco?
Big tobacco, big pay packet — big influence? - Australia - No Mention of Pharma donations!!!
NH smoking ban is only first step
Hewitt- smokers should stop before they’re treated
Smoke-free debate heating up in TC - Michigan - Traverse city
Retired scientist urges research into herbal patches or how to upset Big Pharma
Blog about UKIP & Smoking Ban - on David Cameron's web blog
Letter - Hold Up On Passage Of Passive Cigarette Smoke Law - Chattanooga
February 10
Las Vegas rejects statewide smoking ban
Bar owners cited for smoking - Columbia
GUEST VIEW: Smoking ban editorial was off the mark - US - Winona
New ways hammer clubs - Australia
U.Va. receives $25 million gift from Philip Morris USA
February 9
UK Independence Party supports 'Freedom2Choose' - Also www.freedom2choose.co.uk
The reformed 60-a-day man who wants all of Europe to kick the habit
Smoking Ban Defeated - North Dacota
Smoking ban not likely this year - Virginia
The Great Health Hoax - Oldie but Goodie
Bar Proprietor Denies Smoking Ban Charge
Leter - Smoking ban not answer
NOISE CONCERN OUTSIDE PUBS AS BAN LOOMS - Wales
Smokers, bar owners fear Doyle proposal
New ways hammer clubs - Australia
County officials' smoking ban borrows page from big brother
February 8
Tax Credits Floated as Incentive for Going Smoke Free - This is encouragement not coercion! and Bill offers smoke-free tax break
Smoking ban nixed in Rockton
Scranton Smoking Ban Costing Businesses Customers - Pennsylvania
READ IT- Smoking Ban Waivers Granted In Wauwatosa - Milwaukee
Hawaii lawmaker introduces bill to repeal smoking ban
Column-Businesses should decide what's best - Jonathan McGlumpy
Tobacco on Trial in California - Having a go at Enstrom
Stubborn facts — and a stubborn defense of principle to go with them - Minnesota
Letter - Anti-smoking activists acting like eco-terrorists
Letter - State smoking ban goes too far - Ohio
Veterans' Group Won't Get Out Of Smoking Ban - Denver
Change the law so we can puff on our hookah - Glasgow
Doug Moe- Say goodbye to Park Street Smut & Eggs - Madison
Reality Check- Smoking Ban Repercussions
LETTER: Smoking ban an emotional topic at family reunion
February 7
Secondhand data on secondhand smoke
Smoking ban is no longer helping people give up - Scotland AND It's all the fault of Kate Moss!!!! - COPY KATE KILLER
Doyle says he's open to exempting taverns from smoking ban
Crowd jams North Dakota Senate hearing on smoking ban in bars
Science lab demonstration to highlight danger of smoking banned in schools - Scotland
The unfair smoking ban will mean fuming on the wards - England, Wales & NI.
Two bars face smoke-ban fines - US - Columbia
LETTER- Statewide ban will be an assault on our rights
City orders county to remove smoking hut - US - Newark
Toxins in the Home- Part 1
Make government pay - US -
Bar owners step up fight - US - Bismark
Stafford Board meeting - US - Fredericksburg
Group wants ordinance reversal on ballot - US - Baytown
Clubs seek delay on smoking ban - Utah
Johnson- Money talks as legislators fight smoking in saloons - Rocky Mountains
Batavia smoke ban up in air - Kane County
SMOKE BAN PETITION PRESENTED - Fife
Survey frowns on competition to attract rich - Switzerland - only 40% want to ban smoking in pubs and bars
Cops have enough to do without Butt Patrol - US - Narragansett
McGuinty Won't Pursue Smoking Ban in Vehicles Carrying Kids - Canada
The unfair smoking ban will mean fuming on the wards
February 6
Smoke ban fight group closes in on finances - UK
Tavern owners sue Erie County over smoking ban
Where There's Smoke ... - Connecticut
Gay Village smokers' refuge isn't breaking law, city says - Quebec
February 5
Smokers have reasons - DeKalb - "There are approximately 15 sit-down restaurants in the DeKalb area, most of which are vacant right now"
Cigarette sales on the rise again in Italy - Minister blames it on a lack of policing - Surely it's because of a crap law!
Letter - Let the market decide on smoking prohibition - Chicago
Possible ban lights fire under area smokers - Wisconsin
EXCLUSIVE: CRAVING MAD - Addicted to NRT!!!
Smoking ban 'rushed,' claim pubs - Wales - "It's a benefit, but again, a bigger benefit is employment and being able pay your bills at the end of the week."
New Report Shows Smoke Fills Air In Non-Smoking Areas - but there's a flaw in this - How polluted are non-smoking areas in non-smoking bars?
Smoking ban inflames bars, forces business elsewhere - US - Charlestown
Opinion - City ban snuffs out way of life - US - Columbia
Letters to the Editor - US - Norfolk
Ad campaigns add fuel to state's smoking ban debate - Baltimore
February 4
Smoking ban regulations spell out wide variety of exemptions
Smokers fire back at ban  efforts - Naperville
Committee defeats anti-smoking bill - Cheyenne
Kids to sue parents for smoking- doc - Canada - Maybe then they'd have to prove the science?
To smoke or not- - US - Rock Hill, York County - 1/2 the restaurants are smoke free - Voluntary efforts can work?
Phil Drake- Smoker fumes overban
Opinion - Businesses should be free to welcome or ban smokers
Cancer expert: No evidence second-hand smoke kills - Blog Comment on the Washington Post article
Commentary:- With all due respect, Gov. Doyle: Butt out
State government faces smoking ban side-effect - Interesting statement "Backers of the ban said they hoped the idea of having to step into the cold and away from entrances and exits to light up will cause smokers to either quit or cut back" Coersion through pain & discomfort.
February 3
Drop the ban - Sioux City
With blanket smoking ban, corner bars would suffocate
Business owners plan petition - Columbia
Bill to require 'Smoking Permitted' signs passes - Richmond VA
The road to Tony Blair's hell – paved with his good intentions - Interesting Article
Will Obama go up in smoke- - Interesting Article
House sticks to smoke ban in ND bingo halls
Bars in eateries slump after ban
CLEANER IN SMOKING ROW LOSES SACK APPEAL
Hospice to impose smoking ban - Scarborough
SMOKING FINE'S A SIGN OF THE TIMES - Scotland
Letter - PITTODRIE SMOKE BAN PUT ME OFF - Scottish Football Comment!
Old Letters - STOP HARASSING SMOKERS WHO DRINK OUTSIDE - Scotland -FIGHT GOVERNMENT OVER SMOKING BAN
Voluntary No Smoking Policy Pitched For Biloxi Restaurants
February 2
Signing up to modify smoking ban - Fife - Ten thousand sign smoke petition
Some cry foul on smoking ordinance - Washington County
Nursing home worker charged in death - Canada - Not the fault of the Ban!!!!!
Letter -Not Everyone Loves a Smoking Ban
Letter - With blanket smoking ban, corner bars
City bar’s cafe smoke scheme - York
Assembly smoking den will be illegal - Wales
Letter - Smoking is freedom of choice issue - Sheboygan
OPERATIONS BAN ON 'FAT SMOKERS' MAY BE LIFTED - Lincolnshire
Washington Post Op-Ed Challenges the "Bogus" Science of Secondhand Smoke -Michael Siegal's response with some agreement to the Washington Times Article The Bogus 'Science' of Secondhand Smoke
Ontario rejects car-smoking ban
Our simple pleasures go up in smoke - Rod Liddle
February 1 ---- A sad day in France
Residents fume at smoking ban in gardens - Milton Keynes - 'Power over the people!!'
Oven prompts smoking complaint - Ohio - A Wood Burning Stove!!!!
Urbana bar owners say first month has been tough
Local residents not happy about possible ban - Texas
Smokers' den snubbed out by Budleigh council - Exmouth
Bar Owners Sue State Over Smoking - Hawii
France wakes up to new anti-smoking law, foretaste of total ban -
Bar failure hits leisure budget - Sefton, Lancs
Ban may soon follow smokers to their homes - Subscription required
A shocking way to hook the public - UK Advert
Bias - Smoking- Legislature can't break nasty habit
Workplace smoke exposure 'doubles cancer risk' - reanalysing 22 separate existing studies - What about all the others?
UPDATE 1-Mitchells' pub sales up 4 pct after strong Xmas - Overall 4% growth - Scotland only 0.4% "many smokers opted to stay home with a few cans of lager." and http://www.abcmoney.co.uk/news/01200715991.htm
Officials say Alsip won't have smoking ban
Judge sides with bar in smoking ban case - Durango
Jobs that can kill - Insurance source
Maybe 'Ring of Fire' is really about Ohio's stupid smoking ban - Lots of reasons the ban is stupid
PUBS GET READY FOR THE SMOKING BAN
Licensees hit a brick wall on outdoor smoking shelters
NO SMOKING - AT ALL! - Docaster Council
Bulgarian government does not adopt program to ban smoking in ... AND No Smoker is a Sinner
Congress Hears From Muzzled Scientists - Not smoking but interesting!!
Letter - Smoking surveys can yield loaded results
Smoke rises from debate on proposed smoking ban - Minnesota
Change the law so we can puff on our hookah - Glasgow
Petition drive seeks repeal of smoking ban - Missouri
Paying the Price - Iowa
Bar owners work to repeal smoking ban - Columbia, Mississippi