New Additions - MAY 2008
******* Government response from a Petition for designated smoking rooms opinion from Hans Christian Brown the fairytale PM or is it our highly paid 'Smokefree Britain' leeches**** also the actual Regulation Impact Assessment the ban was based on **************** both make me wonder what world these people live in.
*** Brilliant **** Smoking: no taxation without representation *****
May's Special Read :-
Twisted liberty - Christopher Snowden
How many people does smoking actually kill- H J Eysenck - Long but authoratative
JUST A THOUGHT - people work hard and sell petrol - they make a profit, Petrol companies work hard to produce the goods and make profit BUT Government sits on its arse and rakes in a MASSIVE 70+p on each litre. Where does all this cash go? Answers on a postcard..
Asset of the year - Forces Scientific Portal
Passivrauchen - New Video
May 29
Ministers driven to U-turn on road tax - Dr Brian Iddon MP and others are seeing the light
Mary Dejevsky- Time to lighten up, even if not to light up
Teen army campaigns against young Bolton smokers - Bolton - Did a German political group use similar tactics around 70 years ago?
Roy Beers - Legislation looms for Scotland the Blitzed
Historic Flintshire village pub under threat
Retailers refute governments out of sight policy
Smoking ban is final nail in coffin
What's the future for working men's clubs- - including a really stupid comment from 'amlorusso'
Secondhand Smoke Exposure in Infants May Increase Later Risk for serious infections - Limitations of this study include SHS exposure based on parental reports rather than cotinine measurements, missing data from private hospital admissions, possible residual confounding by other unmeasured or unmeasurable aspects of socioeconomic status, and analysis confined to serious morbidity requiring hospitalization.
Public smoking ban makes rebels of Germans
Smoking ban sparks prisoner strike - Canada
How about a ban on legislating morality-
Orange Beach may lift smoking ban for bars - US, AL
War on smokers is like a horror movie - US, OH
Outdoor smoking ban- - US, CA
County To Study Hiring Only Nonsmokers - US, FL
May 27
Chantix Side-Effects May Halt Rare Pfizer Success Story
Health Secretary Alan Johnson plans to remove tobacco from store shelves
Vending machines ban to cut smoking
More anti-smoking measures planned
DRIVEN OUT OF BUSINESS - Carlsle Cabbies
Regulator clamps down on slot machine loophole
Protest meeting over proposals for former pub - Bournemouth
Rallying call as historic pub faces closure - Minerva Hotel, Hull
Inspired to exit pub sector
Shock ending for Mansion nightclub - Scarborough
Last orders for 60 East Lancashire pubs as trade plunges into crisis
Ministers hint at car tax climbdown - As well as the VED reform, Dr Iddon cited the ban on smoking in public places and rising alcohol and food prices as particular causes of anger
Local Clubs Struggle with State Smoking - US, OH
Doctor offers safer obesity surgery - Obesity appears to have a stronger association than smoking or problem drinking with chronic medical conditions, reduced health-related quality of life and increased health care and medication spending
IN OUR VIEW- Smoking ban- Don't bother - US, UT
May 25
Heroin addict jailed for stabbing landlord at bar

'CIG BAN STUBS OUT PUB TRADE' - Scunthorpe
Fears over Welsh pub closures
Speculation pub could be demolished for housing - Fleetwood
Odds Slashed On Gordon Brown To Be Out This Year
Marston's Profit Falls 13% on Pub Smoking Ban, Costs (Update2)
Rank wins victory on a £36 million bingo tax
Fifty is less than lucky number for casino
Gaming firm bets on a sale
Dani Garavelli- Smoke and mirrors - Scotland
The real stars of Cannes
Smokers under siege - Canada
No deal yet on smoking ban in Mich. bars, restaurants - US, MI
New Smoking Ban Blamed For Bowling Alley's Demise - US, MS
Truckers Banned Anti-Smoking Drug Chantix As Well
Where there's smoke there's ire- German drinkers say 'Nein' to buting out
You can go to parks, just don’t smoke - US, Bowling Green
Summer season begins at Chicago beaches - US, Chicago
Electronic cigarette
Long haul ahead for Ironman - Australia
May 22
Beware scientists who insist they always know best - Not about ETS but..................................
Smoking Cessation Drug Banned for Aviation Staff - India & Quit smoking pill ban blow for Pfizer US - CHAMPIX
Before the bell- BCE, STP, BKS, GPS, AAPL, CRM, PFE, MRK - A Mention of Champix + side effects
Roy Bailey (Writing On The Wall), Philharmonic Hall - Tony lit his pipe - a dispensation for performers on stage??? I thought it was only if it was essential to the performance! Obviously not if you're a politician.
300 sign pub petition for street cafe licence - Ulverston
Move to ban display of cigarettes
Increase In Drunk Driving Fatalities Followed Ban On Smoking In Bars
tobacco ban 'makes no sense - Scotland - Public health minister Shona Robison said the displays undermined efforts to "denormalise smoking". - Who the h*ll gave them the right to "denormalise" it and us???
Almost all psychiatric patients oppose smoking ban
Pub-cast is a UK first
It’s opening time once more at historic pub - Huddersfield
Pub's smoking shelter must go - Diss
Lights out - threat to bingo club - Biggleswade
Fears for local pub's future - Norfolk
PUB SHUTS AS TWO MORE ARE TO BE TURNED INTO FLATS - Forest Pubs
Here is my list of the victims...
Police interferes with smoking - Turkey
Up to 24000 deaths a year in California are linked to air pollution - US, CA
University faces fascist policies - US, CA
County- Smokers need not apply - US, FL
Board of Health Takes First Steps to Ban Smoking in Parks - US, UT
Smoking ban to include bars passes - US, SC
May 21
Freedom2Choose Smoking Ban Survey by YorView predicts Labour Meltdown
Smoking to rise despite ban, says Imperial
SIXTH LINCOLN PUB CLOSES IN THREE MONTHS
New laws could be last call for bingo
Takeover talks continue at Regent Inns
Extra curricular
£75 ciggie butt fine - Hartlepool
Smoking ban challenge is ‘unrealistic’, says Equity - Performers have warned that the legislation, which came into force last June, is causing pubs and clubs - one of light entertainment’s biggest employers - to close at an alarming rate. This has had a knock-on effect for artists, and they claim that work opportunities have fallen by as much as 50%.
Judge issues warning to Halifax pub smoking campaigner
Of course we know how many units we’re drinking – it’s been rammed ...
Patients lose smoking ban appeal - Rampton - Smoking 'not feasible' at Rampton
Locals clash with shoppers over Harrods alfresco move
Mitchells & Butlers Reports Loss, Aims to Become REIT (Update1)
Recover and Start Living the Good Life
France to ban happy hours in bid to stem 'le binge drinking'
Turkey bans smoking in public, with mixed results
Smoking ban leaves Turks luke warm
Victorian Village bar challenges smoking ban enforcement- US, OH
Iowa Bars Plan To Fight Ban - US, IOWA
Smoking ban bill dies without being voted on - US, AL
Casino earnings sink nearly 18 percent in first quarter - US, NJ
Ban on smoking poised to fail - US, AL
Study backs smoking ban as deterrent - US - not according to stats from other countries where there's a 'rebellion effect
Funding by tobacco companies examined - US Stanford
Smoking ban would violate freedom of choice - US, Michigan
Okotoks may ban smoking in cars - Canada
May 18
Goodbye country pubs, hello dull Norwegian clean living - Ireland
Calling time - "The smoking ban was a huge problem, is a huge problem," complains James Arkell sitting at the bar of the George.
Sales slump at Regent Inns
Your Local - The Bell Inn, in Finedon, has lost nearly 50 per cent of its custom in the past year as a direct result of the smoking ban.
Finger-wagging do-gooders just get the deaf ear - Ireland
'Alcohol, smoking lobbies out to get me' - India
Smoking debate ignores property owners' rights - uS, OH
Ban the Ban Wisconsin launches Operation Mollycoddle
Bowling alley owners in Harrisburg strike against smoking - US, PA
Casino revenues drop for 4th month since smoking ban - US, CO
Smoking at sport faces ban - Australia
May 17
Patient died after secret cigarette
Halifax man pays £2500 for flouting pub smoking ban
Why Cumbrian pubs are dying
250 years of history set to disappear - West Brom
'SHAME TO LOSE SUCH A LOVELY CLEETHORPES PUB'
Last orders for Red Lion Barking
‘We’ve lost it all. This has bankrupted us’ - Huddersfield
LAST ROLL OF THE DICE FOR CASINO - Bristol
Variety artists call on Equity to lobby parliament over smoking ban
Inspectors catch pubs enjoying smoke-ins - Oldham
SMOKERS TARGETED IN CAMPAIGN - Devon
PATIENTS AND STAFF IGNORE SMOKING BAN - Wales
FEE HIKE PUTS CAFE CULTURE AT RISK - Hackney
Regent Inns report a decline in sales
My new campaign- to save our village pub
Council says smoking shelter is not ship-shape
Club owner fined for smoking breach - Dave West
14-05-2008- Genting International profit dips 91%
Survey calls for free entry to leisure centres
IF CUTTY SHIP CAN BE SAVED, SO CAN THE PUB - Dunbartonshire
Display ban could cost stores £252m
London's `Little Cairo' Loses as Shisha Smokers Go Underground
The Martin Anderson Column - The price of revisionism
Less smoke on the water - P&O
Sean Penn defies Cannes smoking ban
Smoke ban PM lights up on plane - Portugal
Prison preps for total smoking ban; Officials at Joyceville ... - Canada
Don't smoke, but here's a clean needle - Canada
Stores have until end of month to hide cigarettes - Canada
New cigarette rules will hurt small stores - Canada
Letter - Freedom of choice-
Bar owner opens 'private club' to evade smoking ban - US, WA
Council votes to snuff sale of novelty lighters - US, CA
Smoking ban unfair, insulting - US, Detroit
No public smoking ban for North Charleston - US, NC
Glasgow Smoking Ban Put on Hold - US, KY
Editorial- Smokers should have rights in confines of own vehicle - US, AL
Rothmans Inc. Announces Financial Results for Fiscal 2008
Smoking ban affects local hotel profits - Australia
May 13
A stout defence
'SMOKING BAN' FORCES CLEETHORPES PUB TO CLOSE ITS DOORS
Last orders for British pubs - For the working man or woman seeking an adult, quiet drink at the end of the day, writing on the wall has been read, digested and understood. Their day has all but gone.
New taxes kill UK's passion for bingo night
80 pubs on the market in Cumbria
Enterprise Inns profits hit by smoking ban and credit crunch
Prison hunger strike ends - IoM
Publicans' €1m plan to tempt punters back - Ireland
More than two-thirds of people believe psychiatric hospitals should not be included in the workplace smoking ban, - Ireland
Company honor system for health discounts backfires - US, OH
Indoor smoking ban proposal blows over - US, NM
Olympia tavern challenges state smoking ban - US, Seattle
St. Croix County puts out the smoking light in foster homes - US, WI
Club cries poor in bid for PCYC - Australia - The smoking law bans and recent increases to pokie taxes have really hit us and a lot of other clubs in the area hard,
May 11
Call time on boozy ads - Is there no end to the new Puritism?
No tips barred at pubs forum - York
Smoking ban continues to hit Rank
Scottish lease-holders warned of business risks
Government to Help Falling Bingo Industry
Last pints are pulled at Sudbury's pubs of past
Pete Robinson- Pub killers get a bloody nose - Boris
Downturn in pub trade not caused by smoking ban
Brolly theft a choker for smokers - Hartlepool
Minerva pub to pull its last pint - Hull
UK pub sales- emprty pubs are the new buy to let investment
Lifeline for bingo bosses - "A total of 53 have closed in the last 15 months, taking the number of clubs in the UK to 550, as the industry suffers from the impact of the smoking ban..............."
New taxes kill UK's passion for bingo night
Bitter truth about the rising price of your pint - Wales
Festival Inns records loss for second year running
Inmates defy smoking ban with contraband tobacco - claim - IoM
Greece to ban smoking in public places- ministry
Laws imposed on people - Canada
Liberties lost one bit at a time - Canada
Prison smoking ban postponed a few weeks - Canada
Bring back smoking rooms - Canada
Tobacco, Tolerance and Truth - US
Bar owner skirts law with smoking club - US, WA
OPINION LINE - KS - Without smoking, they will die. I praise my Wichita City Council member, Paul Gray, for standing up for Americans and voting "no" on the smoking ban. ...
Bingo machines crackdown worries charities - US
May 11- Modify Smoking Ban - US, TX
Casinos feeling an economic pinch, too - US, KS
Opinion - OPINION LINE EXTRA - US, KS
Trump's losses mount in first quarter - US, NJ
Smoking ban unfairly hurts small businesses - US, OH
'Nanny state' mentality hurts all Pennsylvanians - US, PA
Carlsbad plans to ban smoking at beaches and parks - US
Businesses choose- Smoke- or family-free - US, IN
People have right to ignore unjust smoking ban - US, OH

May 6 - Belated congratulations to Boris who has his own view on smoking bans see here
Government calls house on bingo VAT - Nothing's the fault of the government!!!
It's a man's world- Richard Hawley
Pubs lose 50million pints a month
Town's oldest pub may shut - Warwick
Support club or lose it, residents warned - Spalding
Care home- Give us our local pub! - Bournemouth
Re-opening time for pubs- - Bolton
Landlady angry about pub threat - Ipswich - The Brewery want to shut it (oh! and turn it into retirement flats)
It's an insult to my doggy dignity - Worth a laugh
Wrexham nightclub to close
Comedian Sean Lock brings his unique stand-up show to Halifax tomorrow. - "One of his principal themes will be his deep unhappiness with the recently introduced smoking ban in English pubs"
Trying to save community - Watford
Last orders for shelter - Rugeley
Shop owner says cigarette ban will devastate trade - Rochdale
Family life is Bob's priority as popular Wrexham nightclub closes
Smokers face £103K cost across their lifetime - BUT lots of people spend far more than that on their pleasures
such as football !!! - Moscow match bonanza - "providing a much-needed fillip to the trade, which has been hit by the impact of the smoking ban and consumer spending slowdown."
Casino association warns against more closures
Just 30mins passive smoking is dangerous **** Again - Will they publish comments?
YOU MUST ACT NOW - Dumbarton
Prison problems will be resolved - Brown - IoM - Maybe members of ASH or even health advisors will show how it should be done!!!!!
Downturn in pub trade not caused by smoking ban - Ulster !!!! maybe you have a different idea
Derry bars bucking trade downturn - Ulster - but it states that 100 have closed in Northern Ireland
Smoking fines in Dungannon - ZERO
Plan to phase out smoking in psychiatric hospitals - Eire
Irish in Denial about Poor Health - Despite the smoking ban, the number of people who smoke increased from 27% in 2002 to 29% in 2007.
Dutch Government Declares War On Coffeeshops
'Tempers will flare' as prison smoking ban takes effect, inmate says - Canada
Persecuting smokers - Canada
Canada banning all smoking in federal prisons
Bingo revenue drops after cig ban - Canada
Tribes lobbying against proposed smoking ban - US, CT
Amendment allows smoking in specific areas - US, IN
David Cass, 71, longtime Penn economics professor, dies - US, PA - They mention his smoking but it seems he knew how to live
Bar owners organize against smoking ban - US, IA
Reason to choke on smoking ban - US, OH
Albuquerque Tobacconists Condemn Secretive Attempt to Pass Smoking Ban Amendment - US, MN
Say Goodbye to Grandma's - US, MN "Grandma's is not alone lately. Linens-N-Things has announced it plans to close 120 stores nationwide, including one in Woodbury and one in Rochester"
Letter - Secondhand smoke evidence doesn't add up to health crisis - US, TX
Illinois smoking ban tamps down puffing at pipe convention - US, IL
Driven to distraction- What are you doing while behind the wheel - US MI - some stats about distraction accidents + Which States Punish Distracted Drivers Most-
Coalition Against Prohibition - Australia
Smoke ban last gasp for pubs, clubs - Australia
Revenue suffers in smoke ban - Australia
May 2 - Joke of the day - "The Labour Party must learn to listen"
EPA scientists complain about political pressure
Patients back compromise in mental health units

GST could push a pint to nearly £3 - Jersey
Bad business for pub trade - SouthWest UK
Exmouth landlady bans Darling
Smoking cafe boss fined - Manchester -
Les Ambassadeurs sale back on the table
Prisoners on hunger strike - Isle of Man
SA Brain hit by 'perfect storm' - Wales
Bingo Awaits ‘Imminent’ Good News From UK Government
Survey shows smoking up since 2002 - IRELAND
Surge of licensees seek help from charity
7% of pubs expected to close - Northern Ireland
Smoking ban 'has closed 100 pubs' - Northern Ireland
Pete Robinson- German ban goes up in smoke
Haunt Goes Up In Smoke Amsterdam
France’s Smoking Ban Chokes its Hookah Bars -
Letter -Let people decide for themselves on smoking - US, TX
Smoking ban hits 1-year anniversary - US, AZ
Option to further ban workplace smoking - Canada