January 31
Pete Robinson- Truth or consequences
Smoking ban costing pubs dear - Brighton
COMMENT- Smoking ban has been a big success - Bias????
Dry-cleaners say smoking ban stinks
Patio heater ban ‘will cost pubs £250m’ and EU bid to freeze out patio heaters and Landlords slam patio heater ban
British pubs must evolve to create value in challenging times - Another 'expert'
All Bar One wage cut - Workers pay for Government decisions(again)
Number of smokers at all-time low - BUT that was BEFORE the ban
Smoking ban breach costs landlord £10000 - Nick Hogan
Britvic starts to lose its fizz
Call for smokers to clean up litter - Portishead
Another pub told to rip out decking - Birmingham
Smokers rule OK at German carnival
Letter - Mr. or Ms. Busybody
Statewide smoking ban near dead end - US, WI
Smoking bans hit pokies - Australia
Editorial - It's a sensible request - India
January 30
Nick Hogan's Fine - DONATIONS WELCOMED AT - http://www.freedom2choose.info/donate.php#donate
First pub landlord charged with refusing to enforce smoking ban ... - with comment
Why the Pub is Empty - Time magazine with CNN
Ciggy ban killing Worthing's pub trade - Worthing
Administrators warn of further licensed trade failures
Burnham-On-Sea seafront pub loses bid to retain decking area
Mystery over city pub's future - Norwich
M&B- one too many
Transcript: Jeff Randall Live 28/01/08 - "the fact that sales of Guinness have dropped in Ireland post the pub smoking ban " also mentions damage of deregulation of Licencing hours
Tobacco firm sees weaker UK market - But how much more is bought abroad?
Joe Jackson still ‘Steppin’ Out’ to his own beat
Thank you for smoking --in a hut - US,
photo by Terry Harris
January 24, 2008
---->>>>>>>>> But the UK wouldn't
allow so many wallsSmoking ban may change - US, Jackson County
Letter - January 29- NOT THEIR PLACE - US, TX
Pub tries to skirt smoking ban - US, TX
Landmark Toll Bridge Inn to close after nearly 20 years - US, KY
Letter - Curb the other cloud - US, KS
Bar owner to pay smoking fine - US, AZ
Letter - Hazards of Restaurant Smoke - BUT no hazard mentioned!!
Opinion - It's not about the smoke; it's about giving up our free will - Didn't like " Makes you wonder why any restaurateur would want to cater to a handful of future cancer patients at the expense of the rest of us." BUT a clear argument for choice
Bridgewater smoking ban takes hit - Canada
January 28
Gordon makes the wrong bet on casinos
Smoke ban pub rebel's court date -and - First fine over smoking ban - Nick Hogan
Halifax man pleads not guilty to flouting smoking ban in pub and Fuming campaigner vows to open more smoking pubs - Stuart Smith
Smokers shunning pubs - Oxford
Landlords warned to enforce ban
Fears of pub crisis - Suffolk
Fourth village pub is to close - Halifax
Ban makes landlords fume in bad weather
Casualties of healthier lifestyle
Massive in administration
Ladbrokes Calls Off Casino Plans
SRK claims smoking a 'creative liberty' - India
Call to ban smoking in cars - Ireland
Most Finns accept smoking on balconies -AL poll
Judge Dredd writer: My nightmare vision of a state gone mad has come true
Smokers don't need another law - Canada
Frenzy over smoking ban is unjustified - US, IL
Letter: Smoking law is too intrusive
Michael Hogue- Dallas, don't ban smoking in bars -US, TX
Fading away- As membership declines, VFW halls disappear - US, MN
Doctor- We all pay for smokers - US, WI
January 26
Warning: Anti-tobacco activism may be hazardous to epidemiologic science
Letter - Anti-smoking advocates should just be honest
The facts in the way of a good story - A reminder about the claimed Scottish 17% fall in heart attacks - Could the Male figures be improved by providing sex changes? - Graph take from
Landlady fined for flouting smoke ban
HAS TIME BEEN CALLED ON THE CITY'S PUBS- - Plymouth
Pubs face closure threat - Bradford - "pubs struggling to pull in customers could be going under under at the rate of one a week"
Smoking ban may close pubs - Diss - "his weekly takings were about £850 before July, and this week were only at £157 "
Smoking ban hits pub trade - Bexhill
Morecambe should be open all hours - "since the smoking ban came in 10% of trade has been lost."
Ban on smoking ignites caution at Marston's
Letter - Sympathy for smokers
Let's call a ceasefire in the 'war on obesity'
Six month ban for fan caught smoking at Goodison Park
England, Wales corporate insolvencies down 7.3 pct in 2007 vs 2006 - "the troubles in the hospitality and leisure sector have been largely due to the smoking ban, increased competition from supermarkets, rising costs and a general slowdown in consumer expenditure."
New conditions will reduce pub problem - Petersfield - “The problems with the premises have been a recent and short term matter occasioned by two circumstances, the difficulty of the smoking ban and the closure of Vertigo,"
More smokers quiting following ban - with comment
Kenny wants to call time on our pubs - Scotland
You can't bribe fat people to go on a diet
Ex-Chancellor Charged for Violating Smoking Ban
Smoke away! - Finland
'I think it's just anti-American, man' - US, MI
Freedom includes being free to take risks - US, IA
Employees to oversee smokers - US, PA
Smoking bans have negative impact on bottom line - US, MO
New US Website - We Are Americans, Too
Secondhand Smoke: the “no threshold” Scare
Smoke 'em out: Hotel puts bounty on guests who light up - US
Crazy Calabasas: New Apartment Smoking Ordinance is Very Poor Public Health Policy
January 24
MAKING A STAND AGAINST SMOKING - South Wales - There is a strong comment from someone MAKING A STAND AGAINST ANTI-SMOKING and biased reporting!!!!!
MP ALLEGES COVER-UP IN CYBERSPACE
Charles Wells profits hit as costs take their toll
Group Says 'Big Media' Suppressing Free Speech
Rank on brink of £700m fund deal with Goldmans
Double tax take could mean number's up for bingo clubs
UPDATED-Smoking ban- Has it been a drag- - your views
Pubs feel the heat over call to leave punters in the cold
Meet Robert Tchenguiz- he's lost £560m and counting. But he says ...
NIGHTCLUB FEARS TRAGEDY IN TOWN CENTRE
Landlords fume over pubs that ignore smoke ban - Batley
Mo. Study- Smoking Ban Hurts Business - US
Veterans Smoking Issue - Smoking Shelters and Veterans Smoking Issue- Answering your questions - US, IL
Sailing into wellness - Crystal Cruises -Beginning in May, the line will ban smoking on all verandahs aboard the line's two vessels,
Letter - Smoking ban and smells - ;<)
January 23
Editorial: Don't mangle the facts, even in a good cause - Subscription required for full article
Smoking at lowest level ever - AND that's BEFORE THE BAN - full ONS report at http://www.statistics.gov.uk/downloads/theme_health/smoking2006.pdf
AND Smoking is a dying habit as more people quit than ever before with comment
NO NEW LEASE OF LIFE AS VENUE SHUTS - Scunthorpe
Smoking ban- Has it been a drag-
Can we really stop teenagers smoking-
B&Q bans patio heaters
Italian Smoking Ban Appeal
Letter - Governor way off base on smoking ban
January 22
Number of UK smokers declining, figures show - Why publish this now? We've known this since before the ban.
LANDLORD TRIUMPHS IN SMOKING BAN CHALLENGEsmoke ban breach - Andy Hemming, Stroud
and - Ex-host acquitted of The number of people binge drinking is continuing to fall, according to the Office for National Statistics.
Cigarette smoking and allergic sensitization: A 32-year population-based cohort study
Pubs in Britain are closing at the rate of 67 a month, according to a report in the Mirror.
Sunday Price of a pint could rise by 20p as brewer's costs soar
Letter - Minority rule
'A lot of the pubs are suffering'
£25000 area for smokers at pub - Scarborough - Unneeded expense
Landlords Fear It is Last Orderswith Pounds3,000 Licensing Scheme - Scotland
Beer Prices Up 2p, Pubs Going Under - Glasgow
JD Wetherspoon has announced a 3.2% drop in like-for-like sales for the 11 weeks to 13 January.
Police fear new drinking and smoking laws have fuelled rise in crime
Smoking ban- Pub under investigation for 'lighting up' indoors - Halifax
Britons say farewell to the high life
Home truths about pubs and 67 pubs shut every month
Closing Time For Our Pubs - Glasgow
Enterprise Inns echoes pub peer's fears
Ladbrokes ends casino plans
Why part-time taxi drivers just won't work - sense from the ground floor not de-gooders dreams
Pub snookered by darts law - not smoking but just as daft
How public houses enforce public order
Popular pub told to rip out decking - Blackpool
A reminder from Freedom2Choose - Ban 'will save 500,000 lives(a year!)' - Sir Richard Peto Is Confused Too!
Ashes to ashes - David wants to see the death of the smoking ban - Chichester - David Simmonds and www.thegasp.org
Nathalie Rothschild - How to be European: ban smoking in public
A smoking exception for Alberta's old & sick - Canada
Fifty per cent oppose total ban on smoking - Austria
'Nazi' claim as Germans rebel over smoking ban
Letters- Smoking ban takes away our freedom of choice
Bingo Used To Rehab Homes - US, OH - less Bingo cash
Letter - Let veterans smoke
Casinos Regroup after Down Year - US, NJ
Houlihan's shuts down - US, WI
Smoking Ban Could Be Costlier Than You Think - US, TX
Ban makes senior smolder - US, WA
Bar owners want outside drinking OK’d - US, KS
Opinion - Ch-ch-changes - US, IL
Smoking ban has veterans clubs choking - US, OH
Anti-smoking ban goes up in smoke - China
January 18
ANGER AT BOOTS JOB FOR HEWITTBlair's ministers did next
and Former health secretary takes jobs with medical firms - Legalised Corruption and What Smoking ban- Fair trial fears - Hamish
Ban changes way of life
Enterprise pubs see no end to tough trading
Smoking ban cuts pub trade by 25 per cent
Magners feels a chill wind pouring over its profits
Sir Jimmy exploits smoke ban loophole -
Noise problems after smoke ban continue
Pubs handed cash lifeline - Worcester
Stand-off! - Huddersfield
'Time Gentlemen, Please'
Landlord told to pull down pub’s £6000 awning - Wales
Use it or lose it, landlord tells pub protesters - Camden
Czechs ignore smoking ban
Subverting the Smoking Ban in Germany
Bartender tries to enforce smoking ban, gets hit in head - US, NH
Judge- Fayette booster clubs exempt from smoking ban during bingo - US, KY
Charitable gambling takes a dive - US, MN
January 16
Gala may close land-based bingo halls - Online Bingo News
Defender of ordinary vices - Joe Jackson
Smoking ban cuts pub trade by 25 per cent - Sussex
Amanda Redman - Hates the smoking ban
Bid approaches boost troubled pub group
Half of all UK pubcos will thrive in 2008, claims research group
Punch Taverns' pub profits down on last year
Germans puff on as smoking ban fizzles
The Revenge of The Smokers- Disruptive Non-Smokers Fired In Germany - A Hoax- Shame
Opinion - Smoking Bans and Collectivism - Szandor Blestman (ex-smoker)
France risks snuffing out its Frenchness
French bar owner stops eating - South Africa
Health minister mulls relaxing no-smoking law for restaurants - Israel
Indoor smoking ban hitting people on the sidewalks as well - US, MI - plus the usual insults - Does a lack of nicotine allow the rudeness gene to over-ride decency?
Smokers adjust to lighting up outside, although one says, "It sucks." - US, IL
Smokers want college to ease up on restrictions - US, Chicago
Smoking ban burns tax dollars - US, IL
Smoking Returns To Pasadena Bars
Butt out of lone truckers' lives - Canada
Anti Smoking by law hits road block - Canada
January 14
Is last orders in sight for the traditional pub?
Credit crunch bites into British firms' profits
Cabbie fined under smoking laws - Blackpool
Is the game over for Sports Cafe-
Smoke ban still biggest issue for pubs
Plans for smokers' shelter at social club - Coventry
'I'm Only Going to Hire Smokers From Now On'
Letter - Writer- Smoking ban a bad idea for some local businesses, clubs - US
No smoking! Convicts go cold turkeymore thing they're being told they can't do."
- US - "Every minute of every day, (the inmates) are insulted. This is just one WALTER WILLIAMS- Stealing liberty by increments - US Opinion
Arlington business owners still fuming over smoking ordinance - US
Bar bets gain favorparticularly in smaller communities, are struggling,” said Rep. Matt Bell, R-Avilla, a co-author of the - US, Fort Wayne - “I think there’s a realization that bars and taverns, bill.
January 13
Smoking bans 'will be welcomed by holidaymakers' - Amanda Sandford claims to be a 'Travel Guru'
Profit warnings hit six-year high
Restaurants prove mandates not needed - US, IN
Evidence gathers steam on second-hand smoke - Absolute cobblers
Nanny Save Us From Immorality
Letter - Letter- Let's regulate all behavior, not!
One year into smoking ban, opinions mixed in Arlington - US, Fort Worth -
Too much government now - US, Contra Costa
Truckers want nanny state to butt out of their cabs - Canada
January 12
PM barred by Yorkshire pubs
Is Stop-Smoking Drug A Suicide Risk?
Unfounded Scares about Secondhand Smoke - Proportionate Science
The Anti-smoking Titanic - Tobacco consumption stable; Lung cancer up 8 fold -- The ASH ostrich has a lot to answer for
Record numbers of our teen girls are taking up smoking - Antismoking hysteria is the cause - Never say don't to a teenager!
Pub landlord flouts smoking ban - Halifax
Time's up!massively, it has devastated us. I haven’t taken a wage out of this place since June.”
- Huddersfield - “We used to be able to make enough, but the smoking ban has effected us Landlady's fine slammed as draconianban, which despite the anti-smoking brigade forecasting an increase - St Leonards - noise nuisance - "The trade is trying to come to terms with the smoking in trade, has led to a drop in income of between 10 per cent and 40 per cent.
Mixed festive fortunes for Pub trade
Mystery as landlord shuts pub - Lancashire
Sheffield pubs at crisis point
Gala Bingo May Be Forced To Close a Large Number of Its Bingo Halls
A bitter blow for pub trade - Scarborough
Letter - Why don’t the pub bigwigs speak-
A bitter blow for pub trade - Scarborough
Smokers face cig-butt fines - Manchester
Working men's club dismisses closure rumour - Northampton
Letter - I’ve given up, despite ban
BAR SMOKING AREA BEING INVESTIGATED - Scunthorpe
Gordon Brown's rule is like America's Prohibition era...too much meddling - Keith Waterhouse
Rugby- Premiership clubs in crisisbeen hit hard by the smoking ban, like many clubs and pubs in South Wales.
- “We aren’t paying our way with crowds down, bar takings down and we’ve New Year spells disaster for Taunton nightlife
Please don’t make darts fashionable
Probe into smoking ban's effect on blazes - Yorkshire
German Don Quixotes Tilt against Smoking Ban
Boss fires staff for not smoking - Germany
Nursing home should learn smoking lesson - US, PA
Bars no longer places to cluck - Canada - Halifax, NS
Editorial- Smokers have rights, too - US, MN
Private Clubs Ask Ohio County Health Department If They Can Allow ... - US, WV
Letter - Smoking ban about government control
New smoke-ban exemption eyed - US, KY
Letter - 'Do-gooders' impose anti-smoking agenda - US, IL
You can still have a smoke with your meal - Canada
Hawaii Smoking Bill Gets Reviewed
Don't let our government 'protect' away freedom - US, Bloomington
Full impact- RSL Club fights smoking ban - Australia
January 7
Smoking ban plunges club into crisis - Tyneside
LANDLORD- 'SMOKING FINE TOTAL NONSENSE' - Wales
SMOKING OUT THE HARD-LINERS - Renfrewshire -- Maybe smokers don't want their services
Nicotine gum in pubs plea - Manchester - So let's give the pharmaceuticals even more profits
Smokers get last chance AND Smokers pick-up fines for dropped butts - Rochdale - only smokers are the target, no mention of keebab wrappings
Smoking age 'should rise to 21'
Mitchells & Butlers Drops on Morgan Stanley `Avoid' (Update1)
Pub chain calls time on families - Wetherspoons
Vets Home just doing what smoking ban requires - US, IL
Smokers must stop trashing community - US, PA - Simple answer - Give smokers somewhere to go!
Sales up, but ban worries bar owner - US, VA
LETTER- 'Do-gooders' impose anti-smoking agenda
Smoking law frustration builds - Cayman Isles - includes that rediculous 17% claim
January 6
Historic working men's club shuts Liecestershire - More willing workers protected by closing their workplace
Charles Clarke turns bingo caller - You can't hide the real personal, financial and community damage caused by activist hatred
How doctors lie on death certificates to hide the true scale of the toll from hospital infections
Brilliant Video Comment -
Our Government of Criminals
Smokers urged to keep taking pills... - UK - They don't accept the dangers(They're not taking the pills!)
The worst junk stats of 2007
Smoke landlord fined £1000
Fall in trade cues closure for snooker hall - Devon
Minister behind the smoking ban is driven from her office - by all the smokers outside
Fire still burning in belly and ashtray of smoke-ban battler - Hamish
The plain truth is, the pub is dead - Ireland
Pub smoking ban 'could spark fires'
Comment - Screen and not heard - Scotland
CLEARING THROUGH CHRISTMAS 'SMOKE' and '100S' FLOUT SMOKE BAN - Notingham
Opinion - Smoking ban is not the reason some restaurants have gone out of ... - US MO - With strong rebuttals
Area bingo games bring in millions - US, OH
Boo to smoking bans - US, KS
Tavern, bingo groups launch campaign to relax smoking ban- US, KY
Politics takes a turn at the bar - US, IL
January 4
Letter - North Star, News
Owner calls time on pub - Dorset
Don't roll out the barrel - Beer Sales Down
Preston landlords say their businesses are being ruined by the smoking banCouncil's Smoke Free officer, said: "Before the - Lancashire - Moronic comment from ----Jose Pinon Shaw, Preston City legislation was introduced many pubs and clubs were worried that they would lose trade but this hasn't generally been the case. "One landlord has even reported an increase in profits."
Crap from CRUK - Thousands to try to stop smoking - Read the last sentence first
Residents rally in bid to reject pub music plans - Hampstead
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation - Active Grants
Europeans chafe under New Year 'nanny state' laws
Enforcer Antonio Nunes caught with smoking cigar - Portugal
Hookah-pipe bar sues French state over smoking ban
Guest viewpoint- Smokers' Rights group says Illinois ban too ..
Statewide smoking ban looks less likely - US, Fort Wayne
Letter - Frivolous rules will suffocate business
JOHNSON- Gambling that law's on his side - US, Colorado
Smoking ban 'killing our club' - US, MN
Court Rules Against Smoking Ban Exemption For VFW Halls - US, Ohio
New law pushes Alberta smokers into traffic
January 2
NHS BAN IF YOU SMOKE, DRINK OR EAT TOO MUCH destroy the NHS - Health for the fit and rich but not for all that pay NI contributions -How can they keep the word - Brown's intention to 'Labour' in their name?
Scripps study on SIDS focuses on accidental suffocation NOT to blame
- So it seems smoking parents are Anti-smoking drug linked to violent behaviour - Champix
Girlfriend Believes Chantix Contributed to Texas Musician's Death
The smoking ban is shit - and many more tales of woe
LAST ORDERS FOR ROVERS! - Corrie pub to highlight trade problems
Smoke ban- clubs in crisis - Hartlepool
Smokers stick to the law over banWestgate retail and leisure park, said “It has taken 14 per cent of admissions off here, which is - Wakefield - general manager at the Mecca bingo hall at roughly in line with what we expected".
Pub sector feels the pinch of property slowdown
Portugal's anti-smoking chief breaks ban on Day 1
Rural gloom over French smoking ban
NEWS Smokers keep on puffing, defy New Year ban in Germany - Feature
Smoking ban drives up number of cigarettes smokers in Hong Kong
Bar to close, victim of smoking ban owner says - US, Colorado
Smokers still puffing away at Indy airport despite new ban - US
Smoking-ban blues - US, WA