New Additions for July 2007

July 30/31 - Catch-up
Smoking ban heeded in London's pubs - Propaganda
Bingo hall smoke ban 'unfair on pensioners' - Bingo
Smokers finally banned - Congleton kept their cock-up quiet
Bingo club up in smoke!
Shoppers hit back at smoking ban - Lancashire
Bingo Halls Go Up in Smoke with the Implementation of Smoking Bans
Early smoking ban pub forced to close - Wigan and Isn't it ironic-
Pub takings 'down as much as 40%' says Mirror
Landlords warn of trouble ahead due to smoking ban - Spalding
Smoking lap-dancers spark more rows - Coventry
Back garden "pub" free from smoking ban - Basingstoke
ONLY smokers are welcome in Stephen Blount’s house.
Confusion at bus station over smoking ban
Letter - Government shouldn't interfere with smoking
Smoking bans hurt sales, restaurants say - Dallas
Adults can make their own choice about a legal activity US, West Fargo
Government shouldn't interfere with smoking US, Bloomington
Smoke ban affects clubs US, Cane County
Letter - Tolerance of neighbors can make a life a lot easier
14 smoking mums fined - Australia - smoking in cars
July 29- Mini-cruise 'Shopping trip' to Spain back in a couple of days
Welsh pub landlord puts new twist on smoking in the snug - & a pub closure and PUB TRADE KILLED BY SMOKING BAN
Is Disney’s Smoke-Free Environment Realistic- - Jacob Sollum attacks Glantz's 'study'
Smoking ban comes under fire
Smoking ban one month on - Preston - "We realise smoking is an habitual thing and people need to be re-educated". !!!!!!!
'Put on a pullover not patio heater' - We didn't choose to be outside - accept the consequences
Teen arrested in London in connection with murder of boxer
Fair weather friends
Smoking bans hurting business, some restaurant owners lament - Dallas
July 28
NEW SITE - Smokerslife
Study: Anti-smoking Ads Encourage Teen Use
Burying the evidence How the UK is prolonging the occupational cancer epidemic
Landlord expected a bigger fine for breaching licence - London
Businesses, smokers face on-the spot fines - Halifax
Bingo hall smoke ban 'unfair on pensioners' - Cheshire
Shot ex-boxing champ dies
Nicotine addictions hinder other treatment - Canada
Government smoking ban not way to go - US Myrtle Beach
July 27
Boxing Champ James Oyebola will die tomorrow
Near miss for pool players as ceiling falls in
Landlord expected a bigger fine for breaching licence - South London
Renovations go up in smoke - Australia
Some Bartenders Talk About Smoking Ban Headaches - South Carolina
Blagojevich signs smoke-free law - Chicago
July 26
‘New Labour flushed liberty down the toilet’
Chris Maclean- Wetherspoon's dirty war
SMOKE BAN FANS FLAMES OF PROTEST - Wells
Pubs warned over smokers drinking in street
Noise nuisance smokers - Manchester
Car park's open-air smoking ban - Preston and Customers fail to spot ban signs
Barman assaulted for telling smoker to stop
Pete Robinson- Smokers come flooding in
Opinion - The right way to stop - interesting ex-smoker comment
Letter - Smoking laws to cost votes - with comment
Letter - Rethink plea on no-smoking law
Alfresco dining may be off the menu - Wilmslow
Smoking ban’s mixed impact - Dorset
Enemy of the planet- The ethics of consumption - Patio heaters
Outdoor smoking ban 'inevitable' - Australia
July 25
A visit to the smoking hotel room - Nottingham
Save the world - ban the patio heaters - There wouldn't be a need for them if........
Opinion - The Flavor Police
Opinion - All Cracked Up
Smoking ban - catch up - Stations
Smokers Plead Council for Change - US, Fort Wayne
Smoke ban stirs uproar - US, Lincoln
Ban impedes treatment health-care workers say - Canada
July 24
Shot champ fighting for life - a result of this Ban
LANDLORD WARNED OVER ROWDY SMOKERS - Lincolnshire
Failure of smoking ban vexes asthmatics - Pennsylvania - Should all of us suffer someone elses personal illness?
Majority of barkeepers are in favour of non-smoker protection?? - Germany
No public puffing? Now it’s personal – US – Rockford
Welcome to No-hio - A state of no-smoking, liberty-snuffing antics
Testimony starts in LIRR conductor's cancer suit
Smoke bans suffocate pub profits - Australia - revenue down by 6 to 8% since July 1st
Pubs want exemption for smokers - US, Blue Springs
Fears smoking ban may extinguish regional pubs - Australia
July 23
Letter - SMOKING BAN IS RUINING THE FUN AMONG PUBGOERS
AllLightUP website link - including the 'All Light Up' download
Smoking ban prompts landlords to quit - Bury St Rdmunds
Magician awaits smoke decision
STRESS LEVELS INCREASE AS SMOKING BAN AFFECTS ONE IN FIVE OF THE POPULATION - the first sensible warning about banning breaks
'TOBACCO AGE LIMIT CHANGE WON'T HIT US'
Bel is thinking - Sir Liam Donaldson -
July 22
Deaf man attacked for smoking at bus station - Wales
Letter - No pride in a nation which shows no tolerance to smokers
QUIT CIGGIE PATCHES TO COST MORE
Council Threats - Lincolnshire
DON'T TAKE DRINK OUT OF PUB, SMOKERS WARNED
Council clamp down on rebel landlord - Bolton
Smoking ban prompts concern at youth club - Andover
NOTTS CLEARLY ACCEPTS NEW SMOKING BAN - NOT
LANDLADY A STEP CLOSER TO SMOKING ROOM? _ Nottinghamshire
Smoking ban double standards claim
The smoking ruse - Pittsburgh

July 21
Sir Liam Donaldson targets fat binge drinkers - obnoxious fat person full of hate
Planning row erupts over smoking shelter - Burnley
Bishop of Norwich enters smoking debate
Smokers Acquitted - Omaha
The Latest Deception to Steal Your Money - Interesting Read
July 20
The day of the zealots - Rod Liddle
Are we a free country any more? - Philip Johnston (not smoking but....)
Brown's 'new realism' captures public mood - "and who are entertaining second thoughts about the smoking ban now the pubs are spilling their contents on to the pavements."
Are we a free country any more? -History will remember this Government for its assault on liberty
Smoking ban prompts concern at youth club – Hampshire
Bar Continues to Fight Smoking Ban
Smoking bins plan stubbed out – Allerdale – can’t afford planning costs
Nightclub appeal over smoke area – York
Duck ‘quackers’ over pub’s smoking shelter – Somerset
‘Give firms time to adapt to smoking ban’ – Cumberland
(Manchester) Airport ban on rowdy holidaymakers
UK gpvt raises awareness on tobacco age change – mentions half of smokers die from smoking!
Isle liquor licenses stay steady this year – Honolulu
What a drag: Ban won’t be imposed until July 1 next year at 2 Mental Units - Carlisle
Court date for smoke ban rebel – Hamish, Blackpool
Smoker is arrested (for assault) - Staffordshire
The day of the zealots
Bar Continues to Fight Smoking Ban US - Colorado

July 19
One stat you don't hear- Smoking deaths are plunging
Letters: Smoking ban must be reviewed now - 18/07/07
Never To Old to Fight
Mixed reaction to smoking ban - Lynn
Late drinking banned outside pubs - Hastings
Council prepare for smoke ban court action - Hamish
Smoking ban may cause pub to close
Pubs claim smoking ban costing business
Smoke ban could hit old shop hard - Norfolk
Bus station bust nets 18 smokers - Newport, Wales
Top chef says no to signage - Worrall Thompson
A SIGN OF THE TIMES AS COUNCIL ISSUES 18 SMOKING BAN LETTERS - Leicestershire
Smoking laws being flouted in vehicles - Redditch
Catherine Townsend - Sleeping Around
Smoking ban is a stinker! - Hornsey & Crouch End
No dodging smoke ban, OAPs told - Coventry
We go undercover in a London bar flouting the smoking ban - Dave West, Hey Jo
£200 BILL FOR SMOKERS - What rubbish - unwanted legislation cost £200
Smoke ban’s stopped chat - Dorset
Licensee uses shipping container as smoking shelter - Rugeley
Banned smokers make too much noise - Wales
Service User Voice- Light a cigarette for me - Read the last sentence and think
Statewide smoking ban snuffed out until fall - US, Harrisburg
Greenleaf optimistic after smoking ban's rejection US, Philadephia
July 18
Letters - July 18 - Blackpool - Hamish Howitt
Teachers face £50 fine for smoking
Smoking less 'is no healthier' - Oh, learned ones thou art so clever (NOT)
Mysterious Changes by the HSE.
Dedicated Jack is four-midable - Lancashire - Brief mention of smoking ban damaging clubs
‘I worried about bills and feeding my children – not life in my 60s’ brief mention of ban in scotland- "..... and after the smoking ban, trade dropped off and it is now closed"
Van drivers warned over smoking
New smirting trend sweeps UK - (The Sun)
Where to keep smoking in London
Blunder as smoking ban is unenforced - Congleton, Cheshire
Economic boom if all Wigan's smokers quit - What planet....?
Letter - Home is where the smoke is
Sex, fags and rock 'n' roll - Chorley
Students and graduates back smoking ban, but mixed feelings about fag breaks at work
Letter - Ban violates rights of patio-free businesses - not a level playing field
Smokers balk at new ban for state long-term care hospitals - Delaware
Legislature still owes workers, patrons a balanced ban on smoking in public - Delaware
July 17
Not a lot of news at the moment - Maybe the bad weather has prevented all those claims of success, pubs packed with non-smokers and happy smokers smirting in shelters
Smoker arrested by police - Ulverston
Carry on smoking! - Fareham - another Council cock-up
Teachers face £50 fine for smoking
ANGER AT PUBS' LATE-NIGHT OUTDOOR SMOKING PLANS - Bath
LUCY ORGILL - Comment about the ban and more
POLICE are preparing themselves for a potential rise in football hooliganism
Yorkshire brewery comes up with tobacco ale - If you can't smoke it - Drink it
SMOKERS FUME OVER CLUB BAN - South Wales
We'll fine the smoke rebels - Northamptonshire
July 15/16
Letter - SMOKING BAN IS ATTACK ON OUR BASIC FREEDOMS - From BobFM
Smokers march against ban - Wells
Simon Cowell hires cigarette minders
Letter - I now know what being part of minority feels like - it is not nice
Comment - Making It Without the Help of Nanny State
Northern smokers tolerant of new ban but sensible comment from Forest
Old but important - Fraud earns researcher time in jail - An Unwelcome Discovery - a naughty researcher
July 14
Protest march against smoking ban
Pub boss backs smokers' fight - The Swan at Bacup
Mad council stokes fag-ban fire - Maidenhead - Close your windows!!!!
Vicar blesses smoke ban sign in protest - London
Letter - SMOKING BAN THREATENS PUBS - Leicester
Smoking ban has bin overflowing - Manchester - Photo shows smokers trying not to litter - the council has made no provision!!¬
No smoking outside says Cornwall county council
Make sure your profits don’t go up in smoke - Some winning & losing Investments
Letters - July 13 - Blackpool - "I have until today, smoked 414,960 cigarettes"
Day trips to Canada plunge to new low
Hookah bars see bias in smoking ban - US comment on Shisha Ban
Smoking ban helps wring the life out of bingo nights - US Rocky Mountain
Statewide smoking ban snuffed out - Harris burg
Smoke, Lies, and the Nanny State
July 13
Truly hysterical reporting by the BBC - A breath of fresh air
Great Letter - No pride in a nation which shows no tolerance to smokers - Cumberland
Bingo fan takes on smoking ban - Good on her
WATER WAY FOR REVELLERS TO STAY OUT OF TROUBLE - another unforseen consequence/expense!!!
Pubs 'hardly hit by smoking ban' - true only if you look at this companies clients
Smoke signals look positive Borehamwood - one pub ok with reservations but the legion club NO
Smoking ban may increase stress levels at work
Terrorists with degrees- Don't be so shocked - wondeful comment about Charles Kennedy
Bogus cops in smoke ban con - Birmingham
Locals fuming at shelter plan - Newcastle
Pub parasols are ruled out - Dorset
Fork out for Cafe culture - Cumbria
Council official threatened trader - Cockermouth - Smoking Ban had led the Council to intrioduce a licensing (momey making) scheme for street furniture
Dutch Reject Coffee Shop Smoking Ban - Holland
Letter - Smoking ban infringes on personal choice, immoral
NC15 Analysis- Smoking Ban's Effect on Bars - Indiana
Atlantic City casinos continue downward trend - US
Legion makes appeal for funds - Canada - "The problem is declining attendance.Age is a factor, as is a city-wide smoking ban that has kept some members away"
July 12
'First' smoking prosecution bid - Hamish
JP fined for dropping cigarette
First smokers caught breaking new laws - Daventry
I WILL BEAT SMOKING BAN - PUB LANDLADY - Notingham
Smoke ban will 'destroy' our social life - Coventry Nursing/OP home
My night out goes up in smoke... -Real life of a smoker
Smoker blasts Gestapo tactics - Sussex
Pubs suffering from ban on smoking - Coventry
No smoking outside bar - Harlow
Orange day trouble in Southport - Ulster "The smoking ban was also a big cause of tension. "
Smoke ban rebel to be prosecuted - hamish
I'm fuming! -Comedy magician Pete Firman has vowed to defy the smoking ban every night of the Edinburgh Fringe
Pubs warned as smokers drink outside - Falmouth and - POLICE FEAR VIOLENT CLASHES AS DRINKERS SPILL OUT OF PUBS
SMOKELESS BOOZERS ARE SCENT TO TRY US - a plea to bring smoking back inside pubs
What do you call it when people ban everything- - Times comment
Smokers not to light up at own home - Surrey
It's handbags and bad fags - That Pat Karney has an other opinion
2 weeks into ban – smokers go quietly - but it's not 2 weeks yet!!!
Opinion - Eating out forces entry in cultural wars
South Somerset is now smokefree
Apartment complex to ban smoking - US Billings
Landmark watering hole taps out - Montreal
Smoking ban backers change course in House - US Harrisburg
State smoking ban tops this year's crop of bills - Good commentary
July 11
Some thought provoking articles to download - Mc Fadden, Passan and more to follow - Recommend some more
Backing for UK waters smoking ban
Ban on smoking should cover private vehicles - surely a joke!
Pensioner: 'Smoking ban has made me ill' - Bridlington
No smoking signs are a drag - Antony Worrall Thompson
Air your views on smoke ban - Wath on Dearne MEP
Smoking ban link to drink arrests? - Pickering
Pupils defy smoke ban on buses - Wigan
Jokers bid to beat smoking gag - Manchester
WE'RE IN VANGUARD OF SMOKE PROTESTS - They'll be in Wells on Saturday
Living with the ban on smoking - Note the last, short sentence!
Scotland smoking ban shows no affect on number of licensed premises - BUT licenses last for 3 years not one
Comment - Drink is just a symptom of a broken society
Stoke-on-Trent escapes smoking ban
Smoked out- - The Wirral - What's happened to their cash?
Driver fined £50 for smoking - Wales
Botanic Hotel withers and dies - Scotland
Sugary drinks to be fizzed out - Scotland
Atlantic City casino revenue slump continues in June - US
July 10
The smoking ban in Ireland: Smoke-free or smokescreen?, - 4 old but interesting pages about the Irish Smoking Ban
"Smokers call time on my pub"
Fisherman's Friend - Smoking site - enjoy the sail
Smoking ban- One last drag in honour of more liberal times
Council blunder can't stop rebel smokers
NEW COMMUNITY FORMS AS SMOKERS HUDDLE TOGETHER TO BRAVE RAIN
Smoking Shaun (Ryder) flouts ban
Pubs tackle odour problem - by introducing more chemicals and carcinogens into the air!
Banned from smoking in own home - Wigan
Town 'back to Wild West image' Brighouse, Yorkshire
Last orders at the Shisha Cafe
Smoking Ban- Government Hails Success- Bullshit, Say Landlords - Worth a Laaarrrfff
Bar Owners to Present Evidence to City Council - Fort Wayne problems
Montreal woman can smoke in her apartment- rental board
July 9
Extensive Trial To Determine Effect Of Nicotine Patches On Pregnant Women - but surely this should be a 'known' since they are prescribed
Smoke ban rebel: Come get me - Blackpool - Hamish
Pubs quieter after ban, say MA readers
Smoking ban has ‘killed business’ - Dartford
You should let us smoke in our own home - Newcastle
Smokers face home smoking ban - Manchester
MYSTERY OVER 'SMOKING' CASH - Plymouth
'No problems' in pubs - Leamington - but some loss of trade mentioned and Smoking ban splits opinion - with comment
Smoking ban stretches to pub’s awning area - UK Kingston
Smoking shelters closed by council - Worcester but it seems everyone is happy!! (thety all had outdoor spaces)
Tell us about smoke-free pubs
The Extreme Selfishness of Antismokers
We're becoming a nation of signwriters
Fuming over pub smoke joke
It's censorship, says writer fuming at stage smoking ban - Ulster
Should hookah smoking be part of England's smoking ban- Australia
House debates amendment giving bar owners the option of going smoke free - US, Harrisburg
Smoke ban petition still alive - Columbia
Protest against smoking ban - Holland
Smoke But No Fire - Hawii
First Restaurant Closes Because of Smoking Ban - Tucson
July 8
South Park Video
My so-called week - Is Alex Clark gutless? He's succumbed to the ban!
More smoke - Rod Loddle hasn't
Drink spiking fears as women smoke outside
Staff face a work hours alcohol ban
Next the anti-smoking Guardianistas will be coming for dogs and cats
Under new bylaw, no eating allowed in smoking areas - Canada
Tories call for extra drink tax - who do politicians think they represent?
Smoking Docherty may face prosecution - Scotland
Extinguish smoking ban Pennsylvania - Reasoned Opinion
Tobacco giant faces Quitline law suit - Australia
HYPE AND HYSTERIA ABOUT SECONDARY SMOKE - Worth a read
Brainwashing succeeds again - another good read
This isn’t about health. It’s hysteria - and another
July 7
New anti-ban website link - Stop The Smoking Ban
For info on Articles Page -Who Voted How -
Smokers 'feel like lepers' - Bedford
Living with the smoking ban - Buckinghamshire - not a single plus from the licensed trade
First £50 smoke fine for pub rebel - Bolton
Driver receives Wales’ first fixed penalty notice for smoking in Car... - Wales
A Personal Protest - London
You should let us smoke in our own home - anti-smoking's inhumanity
Smokers stop robbery - Manchester - See --- We're not all bad - nor are we vindictive
Police blitz on anti-social behaviour - Wimbldon
Letter -Sheer idiocy ofthe smoking ban
Letter - Smokers bullied
Crime warning for smokers in pubs - Hartlepool
Last day as a smoker a mention of The Swan, Bolton
SMOKERS FINED £75 - NO BUTTS - Tunbridge Wells
Stubbed out - with comment
Defiance – One Puff at a Time - Hawii - Lots of info and worldwide support
Letter - What gives city the right to enact a smoking ban- US, Bowling Green
Patients flout hospital smoking bans for hospital grounds - Sydney Australia -- Good for them
Pokie takings plung after smoking laws - Australia
July 6
Kennedy caught smoking on train -- shows the quality & understanding of MPs - He voted for the ban!!!!!!!!
68 dead from others’ smoke and they can't name a single one of them
In My Personal Opinion
HEFTY FINE FOR JUST 'SMOKING CIGARETTE' - Grimsby
Smokers snub help to quit - Coventry
Rape fears over pub smoking ban - Surrey
Attacked, woman says St. Paul bar wouldn't call 911 - US, St Paul
Off to a bad start in England on smokefree - Panic and misinformation from Stanton A Glantz
Smoking ban altered in Portugal
George Melly thought that what he did with his life was important, not how long it lasted
Puffing pensioners rebelled after being told to stub out their ... - Wigan
Pubs divided on impact of smoking law - Chester - AND Fury at Rows smoking ban
NO SMOKE WITHOUT IRE - Fellow smokers can't smoke in their van
Go figure - it's how kids can shop us all
English Smokers Huddle in the Rain - with too much about Roy Castle
Smoking ban has not hurt us, say breweries - Pure SPIN and who cares about the breweries - It's the people that matter
Soaking summer hits trade - Norwich
Banned smokers caught in a pinch are taking to snuff - Ireland
Next Safety, Inc. Offers the Only Solution For UK Smoking Ban - not the same as smoking!
Smokers to go to ground?
THERE'S NO SHELTER FROM SMOKING BAN - Bristol
Take smoke ban rebel to court - pub boss - Lancashire
Brussels plans safer cigarettes across EU
More than smoking ban burns Legion - US, Greensburg
Famous Sam's 1st site shuts - Tucson
Letter - Smoking in restaurants - Alaska
Letter - Smoking ban still doesn't make sense two years after inception US, Appleton
Government's control on smoking is unjust
July 5
OPPOSE THE BAN walk.- City of Wells, Somerset...The Cathedral Green, Wells, Somerset - Saturday 14th July 12 Miday.- Tel 07885437854 Or 07722852224
Britain gets shiny new science minister - "Pearson is an occasional rebel, defying his party line on critical issues such as the smoking ban."
Stanton Glantz Wants To Silence The English
Smoking- Two Million Votes Up For Grabs
Website -We Are Americans, Too - WE ARE THE 55 MILLION AMERICAN CITIZENS WHO SMOKE!
Smoking ban rebel defiant - Hamish
High court challenge to smoking ban launched
Don't drag us into smoke ban - police - West morland
Smoking ban splits opinion - Leamington
Vicar's unholy smoke stunt fails - Kent
Landlady wife of smoke ban rebel won’t defy law - Chorley
Smoking ban sparks protests
Cops sling pub smoker in cell - Scarborough
Smoking is the cause of one-quarter of Scots deaths - more mis-information based on estimates
Free umbrellas offered to help shelter smokers forced outside - nice idea but it's being paid for from funds that should be used in hospitals
Why should we pick up butts demand traders - Hampshire
Smoking ban prompts pub closure
Not a single fine for smoke ban protestors
Drivers in a fog over smoke ban
Will the ban tempt more to stub it out? - with typical mis-information - "About 50pc of people who smoke will not see their 60th birthday"
George Melly Dies - a heavy smoker in his 80th year
Pub’s bid to lift restrictions fails - Basingstoke
'Wine terrace' for smokers sparks row - Islington
BANISHED LIKE A LEPER!
Smokers flouting ban at hospital - Bradford
Pledge to defy smoking ban - the Brown Cow, in Heywood, Manchester
Smoking ban: how Goole folk reacted
Health: The smoking ban - Give them a break - Someone says 'be considerate towards your workers'
Alder Hey parents snub smoking ban
MPs 'smoking in Commons toilets'
Smoking ban will spark price war
Club tycoon snubs smoking ban
Smoking chief targets signs
Our biggest health threat
Smokers told to shut up - Lancashire


July 4
Smokers fight ban - Halifax
SMOKERS AT PUB ARE KEPT AT ARM'S LENGTH - Grimsby
Opinion -Is this a ban too far-
Smoking ban splits opinion
Smoker sues tobacco firm for tainting teeth - India
Leter Smoking ban case of heavy-handed government
From January 2006 - Claims of Secondhand Smoke Risks Don't Pass Science Test
Smoking ban forces more drivers to light up
Kids' views on smoking - some think for themselves!
Smoking ban ruffles feathers at medical school
Worth a read - The Seven Warning Signs of Bogus Science
July 3
From that great site Numberwatch - Shame, Triumph and Triumphalism - Add this site to your favourites
Where there's smoke... - more from Rod Liddle
Have you been defying the smoking ban? - a mass of comments
Web Link for Ashmob -The UK's first smoking flashmob
Gordon Brown – One Term Prime Minister
Thousands defy English smoking ban - Tony Blows makes the Chinese Press
Smokers breaking the law escape fine - Bolton
Landlord continues to let customers light up - Bolton
Smoking ban reaction - Accrington
Opinion - I don’t smoke, but the ban could backfire
How I cut this out - but don't let me stop you
NetPlay TV smoking with bingo show - "since March last year, when the smoking ban was introduced in Scotland, bingo operators there have seen a 17% reduction in turnover and tumbling profits as smokers have deserted their premises."
The Outsiders
One Billion Avoidable Deaths read alongside - WHO foresees 1 billion smoking deaths
Wet weather flattens Scottish & Newcastle profits
Smoking Ban Just who is the new smoking ban intended to help?
Bar owners lament smoking ban - Rocky Mountain News
July 2
Opinion - THE BAN ON SMOKING IS AN OUTRAGE - Martin Townsend - "Oh happy England, oh happy eccentricity and a pox on Boring Brown and his Cabinet of killjoy munchkins."
Smokers choke on 'injustice' as ban starts - Bolton Smoke-in
Smoking Ban Does Not Effect The House Of Commons
A last gasp of defiance - and now the ban - brief mention of Bolton
Protests over smoking ban in Bolton
Smoke ban rebel pub under threat - Councillor Pat Karney, NHS director of Smoke Free Greater Manchester said .........It's a tobacco industry stunt ...... Oh No it isn't - Mr Karney should be careful !!!!!!
Smoking ban in Britain
Rebel smokers defy ban - Manchester
Boss fumes at cig rebels - He's an employee not a Tsar -GREATER Manchester's anti-smoking `tsar' today vowed to try to close a pub whose landlord is leading a rebellion against the smoking ban. Coun Pat Karney, NHS director of Smoke Free Greater Manchester, branded a `mass light up' held at The Swan in Bolton yesterday a `flagrant breach of the law'.
LAST GASP PROTEST - Hamish Howitt and Smokers ignore new law
Smoking revolt smouldering on - At the King's Arms pub in Arundel, West Sussex, landlord Charlie Malcolmson forced non-smokers to stand outside for ten minutes every half-hour alongside the smokers as the only fair way to treat all his customers.
Covent Garden "Ashmob" Smoking Ban Protest
Stubbed out, 500 years of boozy history
Public oppose pub smoking ban - from "Nursing in Practice" - "The annual British Social Attitudes survey, conducted by the National Center for Social Research, has found that 49% of its respondents believe people should be allowed to smoke freely in pubs or at least in designated smoking areas."
Is the UK Smoking Ban Representative of Public Opinion? - Simple answer is NO
Next, a ban on smoking in our parks and open spaces
July 1 - Say goodbye to Britishness - be a stranger in your own land

BOLTON SMOKED IN ON THE FIRST DAY >>>>>---->>>>>>>>.----->>>>>>>----- >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
The Bolton Smoke In
A message from Freedom2Choose's BFM

Christopher Booker's notebook - All done with passive smoke and mirrors - The scientific evidence to support their belief that inhaling other people's smoke causes cancer simply does not exist.
Seeing through the smoking ban - Mick Hume
SO WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO THEN, ARREST ME FOR SMOKING - David Robson

AND ............. THIS IS WHERE THEY GO NEXT - ALL FROM TODAY'S PAPERS
Children urged to pressure parents - Now it's brainwashing the children
Going for smoke: Today's ban is just the start. Could your home be next? - "It must be completely taboo for parents to smoke indoors when there are children present," said Professor Robert West of University College London"
Councils extend smoke ban to public parks - you can comment
Plea to smokers: no ifs or butts on UK beaches

The great Scottish smoking experiment - Beware statistics -1/3 who prepared have benefitted (2/3 haven't) - 1/2 who didn't prepare have suffered ( 1/2 haven't)
Smokers defy ban - Tony Blows and What the Sunday papers said
Protests over smoking ban in Bolton - Nick Hogan, The Swan
Could village pubs go up in smoke- - Kent - "A new report by the annual British Social Attitudes survey claims that only 48 per cent of people in England support the ban."
THE dad of murdered hostess Lucie Blackman fears today's smoking ... - Her dad Tim said women drinkers forced to leave pubs and clubs for a quick ciggy could have their drinks drugged while they are outside
No butts - Lots of Guardian Comments
Comment - A sneer of petty disapproval posing as law
Hotels threaten to stop political donations over smoking ban - Australia
Smokers, restaurant owners hardly embracing smoking ban - Kentucky