New Additions November '07


November 30
********** The Pound has fallen against the Euro and my cigarettes in Spain (at around 135 euros to the pound) now cost around £1.60 for 20 BUT the good news is that Brittany Ferries still work on 153 euros to the pound and packs of 10x50g Golden Virginia can be up to £3 cheaper on board!!!
They're trying to scare you - Can you see the parallels??????
Sucked in ... - Read between the li(n)es and check out the lack of success for NRT
Smoke Ban Fails To Boost Pub Meal Sales
2000 pubs could close for good
UK's largest pub operator goes into the red
Snooker club closes - Morecombe - "The smoking ban drove away most of my regulars ........"
Smoking ban leads to increase in drink spiking
Land-based bingo in trouble - Online Bingo News
Smoking ban threat to bingo hall - Fleetwood
Uncertain future for Kingdom bingo clubs - Fife
Gamingking H1 pretax loss widens;sees consolidation of ops to end ...
Carry on smoking at football club - Woking
Profit warnings shock investors
Smoking ban is killing pubs, says landlord - Milton Keynes
Smoking ban is a killer - Gloucestershire
Do pub closures reflect shift in social habits over last 25 years- - Wrexham
Shepherd Neame boss lobbies MPs over beer duty
Letter - Smoking ban- Nightmare for those left out in the cold
Pub's trade is hit by smoking ban - Gloucestershire - "Dr Susan Hatton, ...... a retired doctor, .... said: "I think we are in grave danger of losing the pub. I am not against the ban completely. I don't know why we can't have most of the pub smoke free and then just have a smoking room." "There is an elderly gentleman who smokes a pipe. He has a wife with Alzheimer's, who he cares for, and his one pleasure of the day is to have a pint and his pipe but now he has to go and stand outside in the cold.""
(Kate) Moss ignores smoking ban at friend's birthday party
Smoking ban, studying factor into bar’s end - US, TN
Casino to rehire if business improves - US, NJ
Tenant and landlord in court over right to smoke in home - Canada
Tonight, Spare the Air - Interesting statements that wood burning can be detrimental to health - MAYBE it's not al tobacco's fault !!!!!
Bingo Industry On Brink Of Collapse
Letter - Let the market decide the smoking issue
RSL taken to bankruptcy brink - Australia
No smoke or mirrors - US, Fort Wayne - EDITORS should report FACT not simply repeat wild claims - Strange that his email address returns emails!!!!
Smokers fuming as ban looms at Churchill Downs - US, KY
Smoking ban in senior housing on agenda - US, MN
Smoking Ban on Public Streets - US, MN
Cosmos Cafe to close - US, TX
Cigarette sales dive bad for 'good' causes - US, AZ
Jonah Goldberg- Who's extreme- US, TX - "For example, Huckabee would support a nationwide ban on public smoking. Why? Because he's on a health kick, thinks smoking is bad ........"
City Council defeats Marketplace smoking ban - US, VT
Up in smoke - US, NV - "Clark County's nearly year-old smoking ban has hurt profitability of taverns that serve food."
Owners- Smoking ban stifling business - US, OH
Bellingham hookah bar to open tonight, US, WA
Ex-CEO says he was axed over job cuts - US, NJ
Woman loses secondhand smoke suit - US, CA
November 24 (off on a tax-saving mini-cruise - back in a couple of 'profitable' days!!!)
Labour drops according to polls - Labour & Tories down 7%, Liberals up 3% - Where did the other 4% go?????
Letter - Revoke smoke ban - Oxford - with comment
Josh Ritter, Shepherds Bush Empire - strange that the Google quote no longer appears - News of the World, UK -"... to tell you the truth," grinned the door girl, removing her earpiece to explain how the combination of the smoking ban and the no re-admissions policy ..."
Council urged to ban pub smoking shelter - Dorset with comment
Unlucky for some ... bingo in danger, Salmond told - Scotland - No mention of the 20 or so that have had to close their doors
Smoking And Depression Often Occur Together In New Mothers - Yet another so-called study that starts too late and misses the reason many people start to smoke
smoking ban and a broken ministerial career - Turkmenistan
pass the mic - US - The smoking ban might have hurt the scene, he said, or the police who were cracking down on drunk drivers
November 23
Genting writedown of £130m on UK casinos
Letter - Smoking ban killing pubs - Swindon
FOCUS Pubs face the blow of England's Euro failure - Subscription - "In the expectation of a relatively normal summer, the failure to qualify should allow the unmitigated impact of the smoking ban to be visible without ..."
DIP IN SMOKERS QUITTING - Lincolnshire - Fewer smokers than expected quit
Kate Moss party sensation - People even smoked at the party!!!!!!!!
Villagers welcome pub hours retreat - They'll complain even more if it shuts?
Letter - Party platform changes for worse - US
Warren Junior Military Band hitting an 80-year milestone - US, OH - "However, there has been a decline in attendance at the bingo games since the smoking ban was put in place in Ohio."
Provincial smoking legislation to affect area pubs - Canada, Rocky Mountain
November 22
Club needs to downsize to ‘stay in business’ - Barrow
Milking the ad industry dry - Interesting
Bingo boss calls for VAT abolition
Smoking ban rebel prepared to go to prison
Social club gets its extra hour - Berkshire
Bars told to cut noise outside or lose licence - Edinburgh
High costs strike wrong chord for karaoke chain - Hong Kong - "We lost 30 percent of our business after the smoking ban went into effect,"
November 21
Smoke screen - Oldie but goodie - SHS Exaggeration
Smoke rebel Howitt fights on and Smoke rebel Howitt: I'll go to jail for beliefs
Birmingham pubs call for lift of smoking ban amid fears of trade ...
Beer slump for Fylde coast landlords - Fylde/Blackpool
Top Ten hit twice and Profits halved at bingo operator - Bingo
French Smokers March on Cigarette Ban and - Sabotage hits French railways, strike presses on - There's times I wish I was French!!!!
'Totally ridiculous' - Canada, Edmonton
Smoking is a sign of a tolerant society - California opinion
Trop owner says union sabotaged it - US, Atlantic City
Dangers of passive smoking exaggerated - Siegal reported in India
Las Vegas bars working around Nevada smoking ban
One Harvey Community Bucks Non-Smoking Trend - US, KS
November 20
Healthy signs - Scotland's CMO - "the number of emergency admissions for heart attacks in Scotland decreased 25% in the six months following the ban." - Now refer back to Official NHS Figures Lothian heart attacks fall by third in 10 years issued only 3 weeks ago!
Tyne Tunnel smokers face £200 fine
Smoke-free smoking walks rings round ban - eCigarette
Smoking rebel landlord loses licence and Howitt has premises licence revoked - Hamish - There'll be enough silly laws to make sure we're all guilty of something!!!"
AND from The Times -An in depth look at The Scots publican Hamish Howitt AND interview AND Howitt's bars off the market
Shares dive amid consumer spending fears
Centre makes gangs buzz off - Peterborough
The view from bars around Wales
Pub closures in wake of smoking ban "inevitable", says Enterprise boss and Inns warn of pub closure
Price of a pint 'could rise 60%'
Litter boost blamed on smoking ban
Bingo in trouble
Bingo club closures tear apart social web - The Guardian and reference to The Henley Centre Study
PUB PINTS DOWN BY 14M A DAY - since the smoking ban
'Govt should consider total tobacco ban' - Ireland
Neapolitans fume as smoking banned in parks - Italy, Rome
Sheriff Wants To Ban Deputies From Smoking -- At Home - US, Orlando
Smoking Ban May Have Been Violated - US, Wheeling
Blowing Smoke About Tobacco - Nigeria
Delay fires up smokers - Ottowa
Opinions from our readers- - US, KS
Love Me Some Detroit - ".... happy smokers (many from Ohio or neighboring smoking ban states, like us) relished in taking in their puffs in the comfort of heated rooms,..."
Editorial- Statewide smoking ban would protect choice - US, SD with interesting comment from 'Jake'
Reidsville allows smoking anywhere in government offices - US, NC
Some establishments ignore smoke ban - US, Ohio
November 19
Smoke rebel faces licence review - Re. H& S and Weights & Measure 'Sting'
SNOOKER CLUBS CRY FOUL OVER SMOKING BAN - Lincolnshire
Smokers face outdoor ban - Manchester
Bingo on brink of collapse
Beer froth expected to fly in takeover battle
MOTORHEAD - LEMMY FLOUTS U.K. SMOKING BAN
Despite ban, bar patrons still smoking - legally and illegally - US, NJ
Some bars ignore state's smoking ban rather than lose customers - US, OH
Smoking bans hit clubs - Australia
Booze sales down since smoking ban - US, TN
Neighbors fume as banned hospital smokers invade - US, PA
RUKH KHAN FLOUTS INDIA'S SMOKING BAN - India
Letter - People should take care of own business
New York to ban smoking in drug-treatment centers
November 17
Cuban revolution - cigar smokers fight back?
Smoke rebel club heyjo faces court and 'Hey Jo' owner latest to face action
New Website - Heyjo - http://www.smokescreen-online.co.uk/index.html
Lots to read at the HEARTLAND INSTITUTE
Letter - Smoking ban - Hamish
BREAKING NEWS- Party over for Charlie Chan's - Walthamstow
Closing time for pubs in crisis - North Wales
Wet-led closures possible this winter
Pub smoke rebel sells up
Street drinking curfew backed - Islington - “The smoking ban is killing my business "
Car attack sparked by smoking in bar - Weymouth - "had never experienced any trouble there before this year when one or two problems were caused by the smoking ban - "
Spot the Difference tour sees 8 out of 10 Cats star Sean (Lock)back on the road and I'm the Graeme Souness of comedy, says Sean Lock
Smokers get around laws in Germany
Don't you dare steward me
COUNCILLOR DEFENDS 'YOB'S YARD' PUB
Sex Pistols in rage at cig ban
WE'RE 100% SMOKE-FREE - AND HAPPY - Gloucestershire - COBBLERS!!!!!!!!
The facts in the way of a good story - Exposing Scotland,s so-called 17% drop in heart atacks
North West pubs being 'wiped out' - vitners claim - Ireland
Recovering alcoholics ask county for smoking ban exemption - US, MI
Lower revenues result in job cuts at Casino Windsor - US, MI
Business owners shocked by ban - US, Ks
Smoke-Free Law reaches first year - Hawaii
Colo. Bar Owners- Overturn Smoking Ban - US, Denver
Letter - Let smokers enjoy themselves
Tropicana slumps in third quarter - US, NJ

November 14
Secondhand Smoke Exaggerations Challenged - Siegal - AND - Where there's smoke...there's Dr. Siegel
Three DL bars close — owners blame smoking ban - US, MN
Study reveals high breast cancer rate - Ireland - "The OECD report also shows that despite the smoking ban in 2004, 27 per cent of the population still smokes; the OECD average is 24.3 per cent. " - Will the OTC agree with this figure?
Innkeepers to protest smoking ordinance - US, MN
Smoking Ban and Veterans - US, IL
Smoking ban's one year anniversary fast approaches - Hawaii
November 13
Smoking out the facts - Quit & Die
Hogan smoke ban trial adjourned
Frightened to death: Why it's the scare stories that are the REAL menace and What lies behind all those the scare stories-
Cigarette machines ban
'Get tough' call on public health - !!!!!!!!!!!!
When freedom goes up in smoke - Well-worded opinion
Call for price of drink to double to cut bingeing - UK
Lament for the lost camaraderie of the all-men's club - Canada
ELECTRO CIG GIVES 'FAUX-BACCO' FIX - US, NY
Casinos' slot revenue continues to fall - US, MN
In NH, smokers join clubs rather than quit - US, Manchester, MN
Cars choke on emission tests - NZ
2 Uno restaurants abruptly close - US
Bullying no way to push health - US
Smoking ban fuels quarterly loss for Herbst Gaming - US, MA
Smoker- Can’t Work Here More Firms Say - US
Legion reaching out for helping hand - US, MN
Opinion - Smoking bans can't replace personal responsibility
November 10
Skylark considers closing as smoking ban causes sales slump - Castle Vale
A smoke-free pub is a very empty place
Permanent Link- Red tape ‘killing off pubs’ - Telford, Shropshire
Letter - SMOKING BAN IS GOVERNMENT OVERKILL
Letter - Holy smoke - David Hockney
Bar gets late licence - Bury
Singer and fans free to smoke at virtual gig
Smokers making mess of streets - Cumberland
Opinion - Haze of smoke's gone, as are smoking companions - US
Commissioner explains vote against smoking resolution - Kansas
Clearing the air - US, Student opinion
Freedom to Breathe law: Bar owner says smoking ban put him out of business - Minnesota
COLUMN- Others' bad habits both bane, blessing of world's only ...
Opinion - Tobacco ban a repeat of past mistakes
Loopholes can lead to violent encounters late at night - Australia
November 6-9
It's a hard life
SMOKING BAN IS BAD FOR HEALTH OF PUBS - Exeter
Are smokers the only bad drivers- - Liverpool
Our traditional pubs are now running dry
COUNCIL TO BACK BAN ON CIGGIE MACHINES - Wales
Teacher shot outside Fla. high school - Miami
November 5
STUDY - Quitters finish first - Health warning: giving up smoking can kill - But it doesn't matter: We're only smokers!!!!!!!!!!!
NOW SMOKING MAY BE BANNED IN YOUR HOME
Smoking ban shuts ice-cream parlour after 60 years - South Tyneside
FIRST SMOKING BAN FINE - FOR NOT PUTTING UP A SIGN - Leicester
Letter - Fears grow for empty pubs
Our traditional pubs are now running dry - Carlisle
Outside drink ban on cards - North Devon
'Punch Taverns to warn smoke ban honeymoon period at an end'
Wetherspoon chilly on outlook as bar sales drop
Howitt vows to fight on
Rank Group deal with 888 fails to prop share price
Blackpool lights up as landlord of Happy Scots Bar laughs off ...
Silly decision to ban smoking at airport - Canada
Winona bars feel pinch of Minnesota smoking ban - US
Petition to End Smoking Ban Awaits Signature Verification - US, Columbia
Opinion - Is your cancer in what you eat-
November 1-4
Hundreds oppose hospital smoking ban - Kent
NOW SMOKING MAY BE BANNED IN YOUR HOME
Mental health units to be smoke-free - Lancashire
Supermarket to stop selling cigarettes - Glasgow
Punch profits to be hit by smoking ban
'Join march to save our pubs’ - Reading
Smoking ban urged in the home by Mersey health chiefs
More leases on market since smoke ban
Jobs go as bingo halls are axed
Best Cities For Smokers
Regent Inns sales slip, outlook cautious
SMOKING BAN BLAMED FOR BINGO HALL CLOSURE - Derby
Pubs turn to strippers to combat smoke ban
Bingo hall profits up in smoke
More pubs face action over smoke ban
Smoke ban blamed for closure - Cradeley Heath
Two Derbyshire halls shut costing 30 jobs
Smoke ban rebel guilty - Hamish - Howitt vows to fight on
Burying the evidence - How the UK is prolonging the occupational cancer epidemic
Hospital's smoking ban has locals fuming - Canada
OC Transpo to fine smokers near bus stops - Canada
Calabasas lawmakers restrict freedom
A month into ban, some bars hurting - US, MN
Landmark report finds staying slim the key to fighting cancer
Keep eating the bacon butties! New study finds NO evidence of link between salt and heart disease -
Fear of political embarrassment led to government cover up of link between airpollution and lung cancer - 2002 but oh so relavent