January 31
SMOKING IS HEALTHIER THAN FASCISM
Bill to Require `Smoking Permitted' Signs Advances
Italians smoking more despite national ban
Buzz Mailbag- Update on Ravens, Mongo’s closures - Appleton
Former smoker challenges ban on lighting up in some Winnipeg apartments
Despite ban on smoking, more Italians are lighting up
Smoking ban giving exemption for Durango bar - Denver
Bill Reverses Hawaii's Smoking Ban in Bars, Nightclubs and Restaurants and Anti-smoking law challenged
UF shouldn't bully campus smokers - Student opinion
Funding bills alive; smoke ban snuffed - Mississippi
Smoking ban fires up vets - Ohio
Tobacco industry spurned - South Africa
Dark days ahead for Scots pubs
County employees wonder, wander for smokes - Ohio + comment
Letter - PRO-CON- Are smoking bans worthwhile- NO
January 30
Letter - Smoking ban hurts more people than it helps in long run
Irish Drinkers May Hitch Government Ride to Keep Pubs Alive
Council delays smoking decision - Someone suggested a financial incentive - commonsense
Italian cigarette sales up 1.1 percent in 2006
Bars want smoking - Denver
Best intentions can result in over-regulation - Arizona
EU-wide public smoking ban urged
Smoking ban at VFWs disrespectful to vets
The Bogus 'Science' of Secondhand Smoke - Washington Post
The Case against smoking bans - Thomas A Lambert
Smoking ban in Wales to start on April 2
Smokers Win Atlantic City Gamble
January 29
Patient groups special: Swallowing the best advice? - More evidence of Pharmaceutical dirty tricks?
Smoking ban may go on-stage - US
Planning chaos looms over smoking shelters
Patient groups special: Swallowing the best advice?
Letter - Far from pleased
Silencing science: partisanship and the career of a publication disputing the dangers of secondhand smoke - interesting study
Ban Aids Romance -
Doctors urge against smoking ban delay - OR - Welsh MPs table motion for ban delay
Police Continue To Fight City Smoking Ban - US - Harrisburg
W.Va. agency urges landlords to ban smoking in rentals - US
January 28
Article - Smoking out the facts
Opinion - Another small freedom goes up in smoke
Study - Increased risk of lung cancer among male professional drivers in urban but not rural areas of Sweden - FUMES + AIR QUALITY???
Smoking Ban Help- - Colorado
I Am the Boss of You - How far can an employer go?
Letter - Going to ridiculous extremes
Dragged before law - Northern Ireland
Letter - Worry about lessons from war, not smoking
Even doctors, who know better, keep on smoking - Big Pharma (U.S. drug company Pfizer Inc) to play a trick on doctors!
Heavy metals warning for ayurvedic herbs is a distraction from the real threats to your health - Are 'experts' getting it right or covering up for their Pharmaceutical Friends?
The big business of bans - The reward for 'research' investments?
January 27
IS THIS WHAT ASH REALLY STANDS FOR - FROM THEIR AMERICAN SITE - http://www.ash.org/pledge.html and http://ash.org/letter.html also stored on this site The Pledge of Allegience and The Letter
MEMBERSHIP OF SCOTH for reference
Traffic fumes 'impair lung growth' and Living Near a Busy Highway Impedes Children's Lung Growth
Smoking bans and cigarette taxes - Milwaukee
EU could impose smoking ban across continent - Let's get out of Europe!!!
What is Good for the Goose........ - Pubs get fined but Hospitals are exempt??
Loneliness Linked to High Blood Pressure in People Over 50 - a couple of months old but relevant if you don't get out any more!
An action programme against victimization at work - just as appropriate to victimisation at leisure?
Assembly panel kills four bills on public smoking
Smokers at risk in cold - Canada
Readers fume over smoking proposal - Wisconsin
Pub owners call last orders - Sydney Australia
DC Smoking Ban Fan's Own Poll Shows Smoking Ban Bad for Business
Pinstripe: Smoking. Yes it's bad for you, but I love it
January 26
SMOKING BAN WOULD BE BAD FOR LOCAL KENO
Tavern may be forced to close - US - Madison
Man Fights Smoking Ban - US - Charleston
‘Gazebos’ and nicotine patches sought for smoking patients at Mayo ... - Ireland
Prison guards say wardens not doing enough to fight second-hand smoke - Canada
Stick this in your pipe and smoke it - Calgary + Comment
Smoking bans meet different fates - Virginia
Opinion - Clearing the smoke
Opinion - Smoking bans do affect businesses -
More non-smokers should patronize bars + Comment from Bloomington
Toughness key to smoking ban across EU - The Euro wide dream!!!
Vehicle fumes 'stunt lung growth' But smokers are still the villains???
Commentary- Protection from 'invented rights' fosters tyranny
Marston's will spend £20 million to soften smoking ban - Yet another £20 million that the customers have to pay for Governments dreams
Communities pushing back their smoking bans
The Buzz- Ravens closed under smoking ban
Smoking ban chokes bingo revenue - US - Lorain
Pubs ready to stamp out sneaky smokers - Why should they bother - I'll be at home with friends
Doug Moe- Bennett on hunt to end the ban - Madison
Proposal to ban smoking in cars carrying children is nixed - Kansas
Bar, Restaurant Owners Try To Stamp Out Smoking Ban - Hawaii
January 25
OBAN SMOKERS BANNED FROM NIPPING OUT OF PUB FOR LATE CIGARETTE
SMOKE IN PUB COSTS ALNESS MAN DEAR - Scotland
The Buzz- Smoking ban killed business, Ravens owner says - Wisconsin
NIH Cancels Meeting Because of Researchers' Conflicts of Interest; Same Policy Should Apply to Smoking Cessation Panels and compare this to one posted before Red flags raised over anti-smoking guide and Why Review Articles on the Health Effects of Passive Smoking Reach Different Conclusions
Is street cafe culture the way for smokers? - Bolton - with some good comments
Club Says Revenue Down One-Third Under Smoking Ban - Nebraska
Smoking ban causes loss of profits for bar owners - Montrose, Colorado
Free-Market Brewer - Kansas City
Weigh it up- how Whitehall is guilty of a laughable failure
85% Success rate for Stop Smoking Now - Claim for CD cessation!!!
Compromise smoke ban needed to protect people, businesses - but still no thoughts about the most affected people - The Smokers
The science of smoking bans - US Southdown looking for compromise
Smokers feel victimized by Doyle plan
SMOKERS BEWARE - UK Melton
Appleton bar owners take fight to attorney general
W. Springfield allows smoking in private clubs
Henderson smoking ban revisited
January 24
Reality of smoking ban sets in
European Commission Unveils Anti-Smoking Campaign - It seems 19,000 die from passive smoking in the whole of Europe!!!!!
Pub refused permission for covered patio smoking area - Hemelhempstead
Many area military veterans oppose smoking ban at private clubs - Ohio
Veazie council decides against smoking ban - Maine
AC officials stumped on how to make smoke-ban plan work - Atlantic City
Letter - Smoking ban should wake up those who don't go to the polls
SMOKING BAN HOUSE FIRE FEARS - North West Britain - BUT ASH et al claim there's no proof there will be more smoking at home!!!!
January 23
Results of Poll on Smoking Ban - US - Rochester
MoH says casino agreed not to build covered shelter - Is it all about money??
Guards may sue over cigs - Winnepeg
CI Traders reports 4.3% increase in LFLs - low growth in Guernsey due to ban
Banning smokers from apartments a slippery slope - California
Bar owners fed up with ban - Cook County -They say business suffers with no smoking allowed
City line- Look for the smoke Restaurants, bars on fringes credit ... - US - Scranton
Restaurateur ‘won’t be a rat, not for the city’ - US - Scranton
West Side mulls ban on smoking - West Springfield
New smoking ordinance goes too far - Oregan
International in-transit lounge not covered by smoking ban - Halifax, Nova Scotia
Letter - Tobacco slowly becoming illegal
Some towns glad they didn't ban smoking - US
Code of conduct sought to govern doctors and drug companies - Canada - an overwhelming majority of the studies that are being conducted are being conducted in whole or in part with private-sector funding or pharmaceutical funding
1000+ activists commit to be first wave to relocate to libertarian ... - Interesting group in New Hampshire
Yorkers sound off on proposed smoking ban - US - York County
Committee Members Have Reservations About Smoking Ban - Kansas
Tough New Law Aims to Kick Smokers' Butts - Pretty well sums it all up!!!
Neighbour smoking complaint tests - Wales
January 22
Updated cards to hand out and leave at pubs etc - on the Links page
Do you want a cheap Pub in Scotland? you can now get them with NIL premium!!!!
Smoking Ban Petition - US - Charleston
New on the Links Page - Fight the Ban
Critics raise red flags as drug giant backs anti-smoking guide - The influence of BIG PHARMA - and - Red flags raised over anti-smoking guide
Exposing the injustice of anti-smoker discrimination - Luther College
Nanny State Nevada
Letter - Smoking and political realignment
New smoking ban leading to cranky inmates in state's prisons
Crusade against lighting up is a secret assault on your rights
Smoke ban blamed for bar closure - Inverness
Will smoking ban cost a packet? - York
Bring back tobacco advertising- young Libs - Australia
Health DVD aimed at Teens - Odd Statistic? "deaths amongst women in the whole of Ireland through lung cancer are twice that of mainland Europe."
ALSO - - Smokers Prevalences, Lung Cancer Rates and Life Expectancies - Why are cancer rates so different in various countries?
January 21
Smoking ban an exampleof Dems going overboard
Pro-smoking group says new ban mostly ignored
Korey Miller, Fargo, letter- Nonsmokers can stay away from bars
The right to be risky and stupid
Up in smoke - Chicago
Only business owner can set smoking ban - US
City might alter smoke ban
January 20
Smoking Ban Lawsuit Coming - Pennsylvania
Consumer spend and building boosts growth - Ireland - 6% growth but -0.6% fall in bars
3 towns' bans go up in smoke - Chicago
What about my right to breathe- - An extreme anti-smoker!!!
In case anybody cared about the truth ... Steady Eddie and the boys have no plans to force rural Alberta to go smoke-free
Johnson- Proposed law targets little bar - Rocky Mountains
Letter - Anti-smoking statistics misleading
Boards' e-mails can violate laws - Chicago - Behind the scene's discussion
Letter - Smoking letter was misunderstood - Excellent logic
Burning question - Employee responsibilites and backlash
Letter - Mary Thorsgaard letter- Bring Arthur’s back to West Fargo VFW
January 19
Smoking ban causes decline in bar sales - Nicholls State University
01/15/2007: Will smoking hurt Barack Obama's presidential run?
Consider source of smoking ban comments
Smoking the big challenge facing pubcos - Sums up the cost of the ban to the trade (and customers)
Trustees fend off county smoking ban
PUB LANDLORD IN BATTLE TO PROVIDE SMOKING AREA - Grantham
Nicotine-free drug for quitters: caution required
Don't cave under early reaction to smoking ban - "We sympathize with the business owners and understand their alarm" - Why should businesses pay for anti-smoking demands?
Cameron's Conservative attitude to the smoking ban
Do work-place smoking bans cause smokers to smoke "harder"? Results from a naturalistic observational study
Local clubs upset about smoking ban - Ohio
Smoke ban relief sought - US - Charlston
Muslim store worker refuses smoker cigs
Bears Business In 'Burbs Anything But Smokin' - Chicago
City asks for no smoking rules on voluntary basis - US - Brookhaven
Smoking Ban Bill Could Cause Fight At State Capitol
January 18
Letter - Smoking ban, wage hike hurts businesses
Hospital defends policy of no smoking on premises - "A TERMINALLY ill cancer sufferer was left 'distressed' ............"
Welsh pubs face rate relief blow
Province’s pot of VLT gold trimmed by $40 million - Nova Scotia
Last call nears for tavern - US
Smoking ban blamed for bingo closure - Scotland
Jim says sorry for his fly puff - Scotland
Letter - Middle ground needed in smoking ban debate
As the man says - Driven to drink - Ireland - (easy) subscription
Smoking bans cross the line of common sense
Smoke ban group steps nearer to challenge - Freedom2choose.co.uk
Smoking ban bans freedoms - Indiana - Smoking ban doesn't live up to expectations
UC postpones vote on taking tobacco money
January 17
Ontario defends smoking shelters at government-owned casinos - Double Standards and then some!
Pub smoking bans working, health groups say - ASH fairytales?
Legion membership up - Calgary - Pubs trade down
Second Challenge to Nevada's Smoking Ban Law
That’s Life: Smoking ban ticket -- Woman cuts tyres of police cars - Latvia
Pool hall blames smoking ban for closure - Indiana
Question - Will the smoking ban have employers fuming?
Smoking ban not popular in Ohio prisons
Angry bar owners want village smoke ban nixed - US - Orland Park
Start of Oldham smoking ban delayed - Oldham - Kentucky
Extra Council Staff to Police Smoke Ban - Carlisle - Government gives £57,000 = 2 officers for 2 years + a publicity campaign!!! - It'll cost the ratepayers
SMOKE BAN TEST CALL - Wales - Call to try smokefree 2 months early!!!
Bar owners say new rules would hurt their business - Fort Worth
Ban advocates assume bars are public places - Lafayette
January 16
Orland Park may rescind smoking ban - Chicago
Poll says 71% of Virginians support smoking ban in restaurants - BUT no details of the questions asked by this poll paid for by a coalition of health care organizations.
Oldham County smoking ban delayed - Kentucky
Veterans upset over inclusion of VFW halls in smoking ban - Ohio
Smoke police accused of going soft on Lottery Corp. - Ontario and - Smoking Rooms Quietly OKed for Ca-si-nos
Local Group Fighting Upcoming Smoking Ban - US
SACKED FOR SMOKING - Scotland - compare to - Council boss says sorry for flouting smoking ban
Smoking foes bring the fight to apartment buildings - Seattle
Ghost authors common in medical research papers-study
Alternative smoke-free law offered - Fort Wayne
'Curry is cancer fighter' - or scientists catch up with old knowledge!!
UC regents may snuff out tobacco dollars - University of California - Scientific censorship
LETTER: City Council’s smoking ban discussion was one-sided - Hutchinson
Bar's future tied to smoking ruling - Minneapolis
Smokers, meet your new favorite hangout- Bellaire - Houston
School tells youth to drop sword - Teen fights for yearbook photo featuring armor, sword - not smoking but must we limit the truth from our children?
Why tolerance for 'zero tolerance' is running out - Interesting article
January5
Backyard pubs must be closed, Tas hoteliers say - West Coast Mayor rejects AHA's backyard bar concerns - Smoke bans 'lead to illegal grog shops'
Bingo operators call for tax breaks - "Gala and Rank Group say that, without the changes, up to 200 of Britain’s 800 bingo halls could close after the introduction of the ban in England in July"
Will France be France without smoky cafes? New ban marks cultural, health policy shift
A Site well worth visiting - Private Doctors of Australia
Our Experience in Ireland
Smoke ban to blame? - Springfield -City may see more liquor licenses surrendered in 2006 than previous year
With bans in parks and other outdoor areas, has the anti-smoking movement gone too far?
Scots smokers will get zero-nicotine drug to help them give up
American Legion may alter building project
Josh Larson, Moorhead, letter: Don’t deny smokers their last bastion
Letter: Louisiana’s smoking ban is punitive
Smoking ban strikes Georgica revenues
Our dreams have turned to ashes.. - Halifax, Yorkshire - Pipe Club
Smoking ban puts snuff back in fashion
Council leader flouts smoking ban - Scotland
2 counties to address smoke bans
January 13/14
Here we go again with overregulation - US Nashua
SNUFF SET FOR A COMEBACK
Do the Right Thing Tony Blair- Time to Bail Out - Mention of dislike of Scots Ban
Summey flicks ash at smoking bans - Charleston
Detroit casino revenues up 6.1 percent to $1.3 billion
Some eateries feeling burned by smoking ban - Beaufort
Bingo operators call for tax breaks
'Pub taxi saved my business' Ireland -The death knell for rural life- - Restaurant and bar closures down by third
Pubs find nothing but bad luck on tap - Fort Wayne
Defunct bingo charity denies wrongdoing - Longview Washington
Pollution 'causes cancer deaths' - Oldie but Goodie
Olathe bar owner says smoking ban put her out or business
N.D. clashes on smoking ban - North Dacota
Letters- Leave smoking up to the individual - Sheboygan
Smoke ban has bar owners FUMING - US
January 12
Letter - Are the anti-smoking campaigners pushing youth into hands of drug pushers? - from Freedom2Choose
Letter - Smoking ban tramples too heavily
Letters - Why stop with ban on public smoking-
Smoking ban sparks regional pub push - Australian Government helps pubs (Britain doesn't care?)
Opinion - INDIVIDUAL FREEDOMS - Niche bans pick away at liberty
Letter - A private matter - Sioux City
Battle Brewing Between Alderman & Bar Association - Calgary
Smoking ordinance turns to public hearing - Conroe, Houston
January 11
Article - Is there a hint of Big Money in anti-smoking - Strongly worded Articles from Smokershistory.com -
Scottish Executive gets it ALL wrong
Smoking Ban Hits Capitol Hill - But not in their offices - But aren't they workplaces?
Glace Bay business guilty of defying CBRM smoking bylaw - Canada
Bar owners say business improving - North Dakota -Free subscription - Trade improved after relaxing their smoking ban
Area tavern owners rally against 'smoke-free' plan - Sheboygan
How to lose your business in 8 days - US - Oak Forest
Bingo faces core problem - UK
Cigarette smoke a tiny part of air pollution
Georgica produces mixed picture- "Things were less rosy at snooker club chain Riley’s though as Georgica said like for like sales for the three weeks to 8 January fell 6.6%. The group added trading at the business was wishy-washy as the smoking ban hit its Scottish outlets."
Sticky issue for pub in smokers' shelter bid - Scotland
Smokers’ plea to NHS chiefs - Tayside
Fuming over smoking ban - Canada - Legion
January 10
Smoking in Car with Kid Is Murder - Start your day with a read of an amazing anti-smoking rant or 'the asylum is short of an inmate'
Now for some semse - Enter this website and read some very revealing articles that anti-smokers would prefer we didn't see!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! -
Smoking pupils face bus ban - Dunfermline
Taxpayers set to fund rural ‘booze buses’ - Ireland se also - Demise of rural pub exaggerated - Byrne
Man to face smoking ban charge - Scotland - and Pensioner becomes first person to appear in court accused of flouting smoking ban
'Violent' advert under attack = The fish hook - £7m ad could be up in smoke
Charles Wells' pubs gear up for smoke ban
Smoking should be allowed in all private clubs - US
Absent exaggeration, scientific case for smoking ban is weak - ???????
David T. Pike- Let old soldiers enjoy their smokes
Danger- Secondhand smoke outdoors - Smoke from fossil fuels
January 9
The winners are advertising and media agencies - Scotland - an interesting commentry on the SE's efforts
Article - The Scientific Scandal of Antismoking By J. R. Johnstone, PhD (Monash) and P.D.Finch, Emeritus Professor of Mathematical Statistics (Monash)
Medical research and big business- The case of Sir Richard Doll
Another business owner blames closing on smoking ban - Illinois - "Overall, business was down 55 percent to 60 percent since bans on smoking indoors in public places went into effect in Springfield and unincorporated areas of Sangamon County on Sept. 17"
Council supports smoking ban in cars - Bangor - Maine
Letter - Smoking band about hatred
Couple probed for smoking in their own home - Wales and - Probe into couple smoking in home
Pubs have their say on smoking ban - East Anglia -" Last night, Pubwatch warned that around 40% of pubs could lose trade as a result of the legislation - and 20% of them could be at risk of closure."
Smoking ban in trust's hospitals -Dartford
Demise of rural pub exaggerated - Byrne - Ireland -not the fault of breath testing?
January 8
Don't hate the smoker by D ARNOTT - surely the biggest load of C*** I've put on this site
What future for our pubs-
Smoking ban funding announced
Smoking Checks For Kids - Scotland - Who do they thimk they are? - What about this study? Multicenter case-control study of exposure to environmental tobacco smoke and lung cancer in Europe.
Cinema can't kick the habit - So we must hide the truth and cinema should not reflect real life!!
Parents skeptical about Rockridge’s proposed drug-testing policy - Illinois
Belmont County Adjusts to Smoking Ban
Benefits of smoking ban outlined - Northern Ireland
Butt ban opponents garner wider support - Calgary
Smoking ban going up in flames? - Abilene
Hospital staff in smoke warning - Ealing with Comments
Letter -Council shouldn't run our personal lives
Conforming, but mainly unhappy - Missouri
January 6/7
Smoking ban leaves some out in cold - Hattiesburg
Guest column- Let free markets determine smoking in private business
Depression may hold quadrupled stroke risk - will smokers get depressed when exclusion sets in?
Smoking bans have businesses crying foul - Chicago
Puffers eye bars outside of city - Calgary
Bars get smoking break: Amendment to smoking ban passes first reading - Laredo
Scottish pubs lose through smokeban, says study - Actual study at http://ije.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/dyl258?ijkey=Xz91O4MDULuKEtr&keytype=ref
City butt ban hits pub's biz - Calgary, Canada
EDITORIAL- Smoked out
NS overstepped authority, says Millbrook chief - Truro, Nova Scotia
January 5
Lifetime cumulative exposure to secondhand smoke not associated with increased MI risk - Study - Oct 10 2006
Property owner slaps smoking ban on apartments - Canada
UK-wide Smoking Ban Expected to Affect Bingo Players AND Bingo faces core problem -
Sex? Yes. Fight? Yes. Smoke? No
200 police reports and only two fines in the first year of the anti-tobacco law - Spain - The bar trade estimates that it has lost 30 per cent of its bar clientele - "The next stage is to change people’s attitudes towards smoking and smokers.” !!!!!!
‘Tobacco – kills half who use it as directed’ - Ireland - Dr Luke Clancy - Usual exaggeration but in reality a statement that his measures have not worked! Compare this to the figures in this older report - Poor die earlier from smoking
Surgery on smokers 'is wasted' - AND Ban smokers from some surgery, says doctor !!!!!
Is it 'time' for rural pubs in Donegal- - Subscription
Thirsty’s Playground closes _ US - Springfield - "“75 percent” of the reason he closed the sports bar, which opened last April, is because of the smoking ban, "
January 4
MP Hails ban on smoking in public _ Bill Rammell - Harlow
City seeks to save our lives again, like it or not - Washington
Reforms will help: NSW clubs -"tax increases and the smoking ban had contributed to the loss of 250 clubs in the past 10 years"
Letter - Unreasonable dictate
Smoking Ban Turns Two - "fifty hotels in Saskatchewan have closed. Twenty last year alone. Most of them in rural areas"
Naifeh opposes workplace smoking ban - Tennessee and House Speaker Doesn't Expect Wider Smoking Bans
Smoking ordinance in Henderson - "Henderson, Ky., bar owners say that city’s smoking ban, in effect since Oct. 1, has cost them 20 percent or more of their business. They’re hopeful the city commission will revisit the ordinance to moderate its effects."
Bars get smoking break: Amendment to smoking ban passes first reading - Laredo
Planning "meltdown" predicted in Northern Ireland
Smoking ban signals the end of a pub tradition - Dorking & Leatherhead
Smoking ban at recycling centres
January 3
Health Scares Ahead from ASCH
Stub it out - A touch confused
PUBLISHER'S NOTEBOOK: Secondhand smoke more than a nuisance - Totally irresponsible reporting
Hain goes it alone with smoking age limit of 16
NHS smoking ban legal action backed - NHS - "Those who responded to the survey were overwhelmingly against the new smoking policy (89%). "
Council says new smoking policy 'unrealistic' - West Lancashire
Smoking ban has some businesses doing a slow burn - Washington
January 2
Legal age for buying tobacco raised to 18 from October 1 - "setting aside £29.5m for local authorities to enforce the law"
Letter - Supporters of smoking ban are prone to exaggeration
Letter - Smokers 'will need id cards'
AMA backs ban on smoking in cars with children present - Australia
Issue 5 imposes on smokers' personal rights - Ohio
Sales of pubs escalate but rural regions feel the pinch - Ireland
7 out of 10 would back new laws to tackle alcohol abuse - Scotland
I quit – but not because of a lousy law
Smoke ban gets mixed reviews - Hattiesburg
Smoking Ban Success - Guernsey
A different view - Ireland
My (smoking) Trip to Ireland
January 1 - Our Government's distateful view of smokers -> -> ->
Just Say No Tar - worth a read
State Reports Rebound In Cigarette Sales Despite Ban - Denver
Letter - Don't rush smoking crusade - Bolton
In quotes: Reaction to smoking age rise
You Ask The Questions- Boris Johnson
After a sinister year, it's down to us to protect our freedoms - Interesting