Has the ban been a breath of fresh air- - Scotland
Smoking ban hits pub trade - Scotland, Perthshire
Ireland - Workplaces complying with smoking ban - only 95% of businesses (appear to) comply
Smoking ban 'could close clubs' - UK - And - Smoking ban 'threat to clubs'
Smoking ban hits pub trade - Scotland - Perthshire
Getting used to it - Falkirk, Scotland
PUBLICANS PARTY LIGHTS UP ACTION ON SMOKING BAN
Young People 'View Smoking As Normal' - Pushing smokers onto the street may not be a good idea - CRUK
Bar jobs a casualty of the smoking ban - Inverness
Man injured for cigarette - Scotland
Fewer regulars - but ban helps barmaid cut down Scotland
Party for new smoking laws launched - Scotland - PUBLICAN PARTY CANIDATES
Ban 'helping smokers to give up' - Scotland - Check if "the 70% who want to quit" did - only 15,000 had quit after 1 month of NRTso how mony after 12 months? - SIMILAR -Smoking ban prompted 4000 in Lothians to give up the habit BUT Channel 4 include some extra statistics - Smokers' 46,000 bids to kick habit -Only about 8,000 quit after 3 Months
Council chiefs to ban smoking outside offices - Scotland, Glagow.
Fuming over hol fag ban - Your holiday could be spoilt
Cloud of smoke that divides the nation - Borders
Pubs 'lost staff' after smoke ban - Scotland
Cafe curfew - York
Smoking Ban Blamed For Hall Closure - Goole
'Third of pubs' axed staff after smoking ban - Scotland
One year on- the Scottish smoking ban
Winners and losers - Scotland
Pub trade ‘has gone up in smoke’ - Scotland
Mixed fortunes for Fort publicans in licence debate - Scotland - "we’ve got to remember that we can get incidents happening outside pubs which are absolutely nothing to do with the owners, especially with the smoking ban meaning people are standing outside."
Is ban stopping smoking- Highlands - 500 helped by 2 full & 8 Part-time staff + overheads = How much per quitter
Punch calls time on 1,000 pubs ahead of smoke ban
Smoker blasted with shotgun in attack outside Capital pub - Edinburgh
Three quarters want Scots smoke exemptions - Scotland - Smoking ban - "exclude bingo and clubs"
Health warning over smoking ban -Children affected by increase in lighting up at home + usual lies from the 'Experts'
You vote against cigs ban in city’s hospital grounds - Glasgow
SMOKING BAN IS CHOKING TRADE, CLAIM PUB BOSSES - Scotland
SAINTS FANS FUME OVER SMOKE BAN - Scotland
SMOKE BAN GOES STALE - Scotland
Professionals to eat out - smokers to stay away UK - more evidence that Bans benefit the rich not the poor!
Fife Council candidate challenges smoking ban - Scotland
Fall in pub drink sales blamed for shutdown of booze depot
Bingo needs a helping hand + Fighting back- 77-year-old Lillian Coid has collected at least 600 ... + UK- Bingo industry launches national petition, calling on ...
Smoking ban forces pub out of business - Edinburgh
Children are victims of smoking ban, says study - With Comment
IRELAND - Clancy Still Not Satisfied and Irish Market Lights up Gallaher Results
SCOTLAND - Bingo halls hit back at tough legislation - Eleven clubs have closed in the first year of the ban
Operators are losers as bingo profits fall - Scotland with comment
Smoking ban drives sales - Ireland ciggie sales up
One in four people in deprived areas struck down by depression - Scotland - Glasgow and only 1 in 10 are thinking about stopping smoking!!!
Smoke ban hits actors' rehearsals - England - "The government's view is that people can practise smoking outside."
CHARITY CLOSED BY SMOKE BAN - Scotland - Fife
Touch and go for clubs - Falkirk
Not Damage BUT This Is Their 'Cure' - Nicotine replacement therapy dramatically improves quit rate - A claim of 12% quit rate for NRT or should that be an 88% failure rate!!
PM, Wed 28th Feb - New Scottish Housing Act better for tenants or ... - Easier to ban smoking in rented accommodation
Actress Linda slams closure of bingo hall
Rural pubs will suffer from smoking ban
Smokers urged to quit before having NHS operations - Wales
Publican Party seeks to smoke out voters - Scotland
New Irish Smoking Rates - It's on the UP
Nurse murder sparks smoking ban battle
Rural pubs shutting down at rate of more than one per day - Ireland and - Steep decline in trade hits rural pubs
Publican Party seeks to smoke out voters - Scotland
Bingo club bid for 'cig shack' to beat the ban
Bingo hall closure protest
Anger at plan for clubs to open to public - Save the clubs - Kill the Pubs?
Pubs catch smoke ban chill - Dundee
Put that in your pipe and smoke it! - Harpole, Northamptonshire -Last year for Pipe Contest?
Anti- smoking exaggeration - Campaign warns of 'smoker's face' - Now it's 4,000 TOXINS
Will smoking ban be death of bingo- - Wales - as many as 200 clubs across Britain could close - Some 14 bingo halls have closed in Scotland
Chain smokers likely to lose shelters at under-fire pub
Thousands of warnings issued since smoking ban - coincidence that this should be reported as £29.5 million is provided for smoke police
Rooftop revellers - Nightclub's smoking terrace plan prompts concern - Bedford
Smoking ban hits bingo house calls - Scotland - One in Ten are closed - This is 270,000 smokers and non-smokers left out in the cold
UK market proves to be tough for Diageo - Drinks giant blames Scottish smoking ban and other factors for decline
Access ruling prevents smoking shelter’s use - but Dundee Council gave planning permission?????
'Twenty-six pubs a month' close + 1300 pubs face closure threat
Rank Will Shut Nine Bingo Clubs Before Smoking Bans + Smoke ban leads Rank to shut ten bingo clubs
Cigarette ban threat to pub's pipe contest - 150 years of tradition up in smoke from the BNP
NOISE CONCERN OUTSIDE PUBS AS BAN LOOMS - Wales
LETTER: Smoking ban an emotional topic at family reunion
Smoking ban is no longer helping people give up - Scotland
Science lab demonstration to highlight danger of smoking banned in schools - Scotland
The unfair smoking ban will mean fuming on the wards - England, Wales & NI.
SMOKE BAN PETITION PRESENTED - Fife
CLEANER IN SMOKING ROW LOSES SACK APPEAL
Hospice to impose smoking ban - Scarborough
SMOKING FINE'S A SIGN OF THE TIMES - Scotland
Signing up to modify smoking ban - Fife - Ten thousand sign smoke petition
Assembly smoking den will be illegal - Wales
Residents fume at smoking ban in gardens - Milton Keynes - 'Power over the people!!'
Smokers' den snubbed out by Budleigh council - Exmouth
UPDATE 1-Mitchells' pub sales up 4 pct after strong Xmas - Overall 4% growth - Scotland only 0.4% "many smokers opted to stay home with a few cans of lager." and http://www.abcmoney.co.uk/news/01200715991.htm
Licensees hit a brick wall on outdoor smoking shelters
NO SMOKING - AT ALL! - Docaster Council
Dark days ahead for Scots pubs
Gazebos’ and nicotine patches sought for smoking patients at Mayo ... - Ireland
OBAN SMOKERS BANNED FROM NIPPING OUT OF PUB FOR LATE CIGARETTE
Pub refused permission for covered patio smoking area - Hemelhempstead
SMOKING BAN HOUSE FIRE FEARS - North West Britain - BUT ASH et al claim there's no proof there will be more smoking at home!!!!
CI Traders reports 4.3% increase in LFLs - low growth in Guernsey due to ban
Neighbour smoking complaint tests - Wales
Do you want a cheap Pub in Scotland? you can now get them with NIL premium!!!!
Smoke ban blamed for bar closure - Inverness
Will smoking ban cost a packet? - York
PUB LANDLORD IN BATTLE TO PROVIDE SMOKING AREA - Grantham
Hospital defends policy of no smoking on premises - "A TERMINALLY ill cancer sufferer was left 'distressed' ............"
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
SACKED FOR SMOKING - Scotland - compare to - Council boss says sorry for flouting smoking ban
Our Experience in Ireland
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
Bingo operators call for tax breaks
Scottish Executive gets it ALL wrong
Bingo faces core problem - UK
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
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
The winners are advertising and media agencies - Scotland - an interesting commentry on the SE's efforts
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?
What future for our pubs-
Smoking ban funding announced
Smoking Checks For Kids - Scotland - Who do they thimk they are?
Scottish pubs lose through smokeban, says study - Actual study at http://ije.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/dyl258?ijkey=Xz91O4MDULuKEtr&keytype=ref
UK-wide Smoking Ban Expected to Affect Bingo Players AND Bingo faces core problem -
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 !!!!!
Not UK but relavent - Smoking Ban Turns Two - "fifty hotels in Saskatchewan have closed. Twenty last year alone. Most of them in rural areas" - Meanwhile from another source - smoking rates fell from 24% (2003) to 23.9% (2005)!!
Planning "meltdown" predicted in Northern Ireland
Smoking ban signals the end of a pub tradition - Dorking & Leatherhead
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 Success - Guernsey
The English pub is in mortal danger
Unexpected consequences - Queen's toast ban
Another Ban Failed: - UK - West Lancashire
S&N moves into soft drinks in hard times - "....beer market was "depressed", with sales volumes falling 6.7 per cent in the third quarter. "
No cigarettes for patients at Dales - "....we do recognise that for some patients at our acute mental health units, quitting smoking is a very difficult thing to do."
Smoking ban ignites a spending frenzy - Manchester
Conquest smoking ban - Bexhill -SMOKING shelters are to be pulled down as staff and patients are asked to take a 'zero tolerance' approach
EXCLUSIVE: CIG BROTHER - PUB toilets are to be fitted with hyper-sensitive alarms to catch drinkers having a sneaky cigarette when the nationwide smoking ban comes into force
Alcohol ban for street drinkers - Burnley
Alcohol ban for street drinkers - Lancashire
Cigarettes outlawed on entire hospital site - York
Shelters to be removed to prepare for smoke free Conquest - or hurt and humiliate the smoker
MP criticises PCT's smoking scheme - Essex
Pub kagouls for punters - Glasgow
Independent pub numbers set to dip
Anger over new council smoking bans - Lancashire
Smoking ban to fuel sales of gas-guzzling patio heaters - Smoke ban 'threatens environment' - Lib Dem Norman Baker advised smokers to "enjoy the bracing air" instead.
Pollet parking banned - Guernsey - FEARS for smokers’ safety have prompted a change to parking laws at the Lower Pollet.
Fury at bid to ban people from smoking in their homes - Peterborough
One last glass for a dying Irish tradition ...
Guide to polonium: Questions and answers - A cigarette contains less than a Billionth of the Polonium that killed Litvinenko
Rabbitte unimpressed by 'Budget for super-wealthy' _ Ireland Budget "John McCormack, of the Irish Cancer Society' -a complete failure by this Government to protect the health of our population and is facilitating a direct resurgence in smoking levels especially in women and in young people.” - The Ban didn't work!"
HRI urged to provide a place for smokers - Huddersfield
Scotts employee gone in a puff of smoke - US - "Scotts' anti-smoking policy treats the lungs of employees as essentially company property."
Smoking ban already being challenged - Cleveland
Police probe kneecap threat to smoke ban MSP
(HALF EMPTY) HOUSE! - Scotland
FEARS MILLOM WILL BECOME GHOST TOWN - North West England
Smoking ban hits UK bingo halls - There was a “modest impact” on revenues at its Spanish bingo business, Rank Espana, caused by a partial smoking ban in the country.
Rank sells Hard Rock to Native American tribe - but Scotland's smoking ban in March had decreased bingo revenues there by 15 percent ...
Cheaper drink may be behind rise in violent home deaths - Scotland - They rule out the smoking ban as a cause!
Landlords’ fear over smoke ban - York
COUPLE BLAME SMOKE BAN OVER LOSING BAR
Gala Coral rues bingo woes, eyes Tote partnership - "Most badly impacted are the smaller venues like converted cinemas, and those are the ones that are most important to local communities,"
Councillor calls on pubs to protest at smoking ban - Scotland
Enterprise in Scottish pubs sale and Enterprise sells all its Scottish pubs - admits sales down 10% in some pubs
Cigarette sales flux: It’s not the smoking ban but the black market - Malta sales up
Smoking ban may force us to close our doors - Clubs in Kirkaldy - Fife - And Smoking ban protest to close clubs and pubs - Scotland - Protest to present petition against the ban
Smokers are falling short - We're not giving up as fast as they thought we would
Young smokers on rise despite introduction of smoking ban - old news of a failing and preparing for price rises in Ireland
Smoke and drink addiction strong as ever - Glasgow
S&N sees gloom for the brewers
Curbs on smoking still leave Imperial (Tobacco) with plenty of puff - Mention of "Ireland, where such a ban is in force, revenues have started to recover" and - Smoking ban 'a triumph of propaganda over science' says Imperial as sales and profits rise - "sales of cigarettes in Scotland had fully recovered from the ban of smoking"
Smokers who loiter outside 'too noisy to be tolerated' - Health - Times Online
Fury at NHS trust ban on smoking in own home - Yorkshire
Fears as smoking ban results reversed - Ireland - Irish Cancer Society
Non-smokers left out in the cold as ban blows up in our faces - Ireland - "Please come back into the pub guys — we miss ye! "
Youth pubs hardest hit by Scots stub-out -
Cigarette sales up 5% despite smoking ban - Scotland - and "in Ireland cigarette sales are now higher than before the ban, which was introduced in March 2004. " - Surely an indication that hardline total bans are counter-productive.- Cigarette sales up despite ban
Surge in noise complaints following smoking ban - Edinburgh
They’ve got it covered - basically an advert but from Scottish & Newcastle "......while business is 10 per cent down overall in Scotland, in pubs where they have done something, it has made a difference.”
Smoking ban costs Punch - UK Punch Group
Smoking ban is blamed as city bingo club closes from August 10 with mention of the Forge Centre, Glasgow where sales have slumped since the ban
Pub smoke area plans in the pipeline - Dundee -"...main reasons for refusal of most of the applications so far had been that many were from pubs in largely tenement areas, where the establishments had flats above."
ANTI-BAN CAMPAIGNERS THREAT - Fife
Bingo calls for MSPs to back rescue -Scotland
A few from Scotland - PITTODRIE SMOKE BAN PUT ME OFF - STOP HARASSING SMOKERS WHO DRINK OUTSIDE - FIGHT GOVERNMENT OVER SMOKING BAN
Smoking out of doors banned by council - West Lindsey Council
SCOTLAND Smoke ban hits Scottish pub takings Morning Advertiser- 'Drop in trade' after smoking ban IC Network- Pub smoking ban has led to '11% fall in takings' 24dash.com - Smoking ban hits pubs The Sun- Smoke ban clearing pubs of punters Scotsman + Anti-smoking group attacks smoking ban survey The Publican + Anti-smoking group attacks trade's figures Morning Advertiser - Pubs idle as smoke ban hits Evening Telegraph - City stubs out smoke ban claims A prominent Aberdeen publican believes claims drinkers have been driven away by the smoking ban are flawed, because of the summer football and the heat. - Scottish smoking ban leaves landlords fuming Guardian - Scotland's smoking ban 'drives away regulars' Times Online - Kerr says 'no evidence' bars will fail Evening Times - 'Ban has led to drop in takings' BBC - Pub takings in Scotland plummet after smoking is banned The Independent
The Big Question: Have the bans on smoking in public places been a success? The Independent
New ruling on smoking in market - Wigan
Total smoking ban for hospital - Kings Lynn
Community’gobbledygook as government diktats kill those communities
THE FEDERATION OF THE RETAIL LICENSED TRADE NI Response and Economic consequences document - some real infrormation
Exploding Graydon Back on the Butts - a man with money struggles to quit
Ban forcing hospital smokers onto street -- Anyone wishing to have a cigarette must leave the premises, while hospital staff are banned from smoking at all while in NHS uniform.
Up in smoke - Scotland - why are so many girls still taking up the habit?
Punch holds steady in Scotland despite ban on smokers - but read a little deeper
Wetherspoons' profit rise fades away
Holy smoke, the pubs reek of BO - The Health Bill is not the only thing that stinks.
Rank to Cut Bingo Jobs, Shut Head Office to End Slide (Update2)- Much more detail about Bingo losses
Scottish smoking ban hits Rank and Rank to axe 240 and quit London and Scottish smoking ban hits pubs and Smoking ban affects liquor sales in Scottish pubs – but pub restaurants have never fared better!
Smokers say farewell to final contest - Norfolk Pipe smokers
Pubs to pay for street smoking - Oxfordshire - £500 to put tables outside!
Outside areas facing squeeze - UK concern
Bar Squares up to 8pm outdoor ban - Harborough, Leicestershire
Landlords give their verdict six months into ban
Office Of Tobacco Control Points The Finger At Foreigners - Whoops, the Irish Bans not working
Smoking workers lose sack appeal - Well I suppose it's back to Tescos NOT MORRISONS
Bingo calls for MSPs to back rescue -Scotland
James Bond's smoking ban - "I can blow off someone's head at close range and splatter blood, but I can't light a good Cuban cigar."
Pubs fear smoking ban and winter will bring the big freeze - Scotland - Health minister Andy Kerr has said “there is no evidence to suggest that pubs, cafés or restaurants will go out of business as a direct result of the smoking ban”.
No smoke indoors, no drink outdoors. - Aberdeen
Council's smoking policy bans workers' fag breaks - Cambridgeshire
Love thy neighbour - or lose thy licence, Judge warns - Galway
Smoke ban forces pubs to re-think - Scottish community pubs are beginning to either close or change their customer offer in response to the smoking ban, new findings suggest.
Smoking ban is no success - Scottish letter
Scottish licensees face tough winter, trade leader warns
'I will go to jail to fight smoke ban' - Go get 'em Hamish
Smoking ban eats into trade at pubs with no food
Scottish councillor fails in outside smoke ban bid and No ban on smoking OUTSIDE pubs
Hundreds of smokers fined in wake of ban - Evidence that it's welcome by all?
'Ban smoking in pub gardens' says councillor - Scottish insanity - good comments after
Doorway smokers risking fines - Scotsman article + lots of Comment
Drinking habits changing, pub groups say - But there will be no drinking in traditional pubs???
Scottish trade "pessimistic" about future of smoking ban - STLA
Noise warning for pubs
NURSES were today ordered to "stub it out" – even when going home.- It's geting sillier
Smoking Ban Is Unpopular With Mental Healthcare Staff, UK - Many staff worry that introducing a smoking ban in mental health units is unfair and will cause confrontation between patients and staff
Face of the Fair - The end of an era was also marked on Saturday, with what is expected to be the last day clay piping smoking contest to be held im the Market Hall, due to the upcoming smoking ban.
Figures from Ireland show continuous rise over 15 month - 1.5% rise March '05 toMarch '06- full report at www.otc.ie/research_reports.asp
----- Click here to see larger imageHospital workers to catch smokers -"smoking all round the hospital site causes patients, visitors and staff to choke on the fumes"
From the US buy fits with Irish stats Smoker Numbers Rise, but Mayor Lauds Other City Statistics - New York
THE FEDERATION OF THE RETAIL LICENSED TRADE NI Response and Economic consequences document - some real infrormation Ban forcing hospital smokers onto street -- Anyone wishing to have a cigarette must leave the premises, while hospital staff are banned from smoking at all while in NHS uniform.
Pubs to stage smoke ban protest - Guernsey
Another Increase In Tobacco Sales (30/07/06) from SadIreland
WORKER SACKED FOR CIG BREAK - Fife- A 12 hour shift with no true break
PM’s wife’s law firm to advise on ban case - Guernsey protest march
No to pub's outdoor smoke zone - Wetherspoon's Dagenham
Wetherspoons' profit rise fades away
Bingo operators call for £100m ‘smoking ban’ tax rebate - Scotland
Scottish smoking ban hits Rank and Rank to axe 240 and quit London and Scottish smoking ban hits pubs and Smoking ban affects liquor sales in Scottish pubs – but pub restaurants have never fared better! - Greene King managed pub sales up - BUT not in Scotland
‘Four pubs and a club doomed by smoking ban’ - Then comes the crap - Smoke ban’s here to stay’
Smoking ban is blamed as city bingo club closes - Glasgow -also shopping centre hurt by ban
STUBBED OUT BY SMOKING BAN New law blamed for the Forge's huge slump in business; from July 28
Smoking ban is killing our trade - Fife -The Scottish Executive consulted widely on the legislation and public support was overwhelmingly in favour of banning smoking in enclosed public places.
Scotland's smoke ban starts to hit pub sales
LICENSEES WANT SMOKING BAN RELAXED - from FIFE
ASH and trade group in row over impact of smoking ban
Georgica half disappoints -Sales....in Scotland over the 16 weeks to 23 July fell 13% compared to England and Wales
Our fight hasn't run out of puff!
Empty house (27 June)
Smokers claim ban has stubbed out kids' summer treat note the title -It's the smokers NOT the committees
Edinburgh licensees are being warned to keep their smoking customers quiet or face losing their license
Actors fuming over smoking ban
Licensees' emergency smoke ban meeting Scotland -meeting with their MSP
Only one in ten mental health staff in agreement with government on smoking ban, King’s Fund survey suggests
Bingo hit by smoke ban
Smoking ban burns into Wetherspooon's figures
Wetherspoon waking up to smell the coffee and some tales of trade after the ban
‘Ban is crippling business’ after only one week in Guernsey
Modern life calls time on the Irish country pub
Half of Scottish bingo halls threatened by smoking ban one was in Gordon Browns constituency
Family blames pensioner's pub death on smoking ban
More pubs to close as drinking habits change
Exiled smokers fan the flames of sectarianism
Smoking has mixed effect on Pubs
Doolan’s Bar in Cobh, Co Cork -Nov 2004
Brewer admits smaller traditional pubs will close