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new page - Bans do cause damage - UK

The Ban was Planned long before the Election and the Manifesto Lies
The Extremes -or 'Spot the MORON'
Sense--fom The BBC "Peers attack public smoking ban "
Non-sense -- from The Mirror "POTTY PEERS SLAM BAN ON SMOKING"
Good old Stoddart
The Extreme of Anti-Smoking Journalism NEW and a disgrace
Smoking ban meets resistance in "tolerant" Germany NEW SENSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Anti smoke ban campaigners call for support NEW
POWER TO THE PEOPLE? -people are getting fed up in Scotland
Smoking guidance clamour - or Will they ask MPs to vote on the unknown(again) and deny publicans a chance to plan??
Editorial: Allow smoking in bars, restaurants - Simple & Sensible (so it'll be ignored)
Ban aid: The surgeon general hypes the hazards of secondhand smoke By Jacob Sullum July 5, 2006
What about the workers? Club members huff and puff as ban looms - Luton W M Club fears for its life

Damage caused by Bans
Smoking ban blamed as VLT profits dive - video lottery terminals in New Brunswick
Smoking ban blamed for casino layoffs
Smoking ban burns into Wetherspooon's figures
Wetherspoon waking up to smell the coffee and some tales of trade after the ban
Suspend smoking ban: bar owners - 30% drop in takings
Lord's diary: Smoked out - the ban is not popular with all visitors
(Interestingly, Greene King's super-regional rival, Wolverhampton & Dudley, is preparing for the smoking ban by moving 90 or so wet-led managed pubs, where developing a food trade is not possible, to tenancy.)
Tax Lowered For Casino Hit Hard By Smoking Ban - Of course they don't damage business
Smoking ban breathes new life into pub sales - Just a bit selective - It's only about Dublin!!!
No butts - Fringe show is issued with smoke-ban warning - Culture Control in Scotland
Ban looms for drink sponsors in sport
‘Ban is crippling business’ after only one week in Guernsey
Appleton smoking ban may be revisited
Madison Smoking Ban - 1 Year Later
Modern life calls time on the Irish country pub
Resist the tobacco Taliban from The Times -Some Commonsense
Lighters-up must pipe down
Plan to ban lighting up if council calls
Landlords told to sort out ban problems
Morrisons sack 7 but maybe they should think again
Churchill loses his cigar!!! and Mel Smith flicks V at smoking ban - it's clear what he thinks and Close call, but no cigar

Business will be damaged -BINGO Bingo Halls feel the Pinch and City bingo halls 'hit hard' by smoking ban and Smoke ban ends bingo, charities struggle NEW and even NEWER Smoking ban burns Windsor bingo Parlours and Bingo hit by smoke ban and Empty house AND the Future Half of Scottish bingo halls threatened by smoking ban one was in Gordon Browns constituency AND Rank spins the wheel for one last time - Rank in £172m bingo and casino sell-off - Another bingo bites the dust = Crest Bingo closes, charities feel pinch - In the past year, four Edmonton bingos and one St. Albert bingo have closed down. That leaves 11 bingos - 10 in Edmonton and one in St. Albert, said Ian Taylor of Alberta Satellite Bingo.

Minimum smoking age to rise & Off-duty taxi driver fined after daughter lights up from July 2
US Veterans clubs feel the pinch
NHS Lothian ordered to cut number of smokers by fifth
Smoking ban a death knell?
PUBCO Releases Economic Impact Study -Ontario
Nicotine tablets took over my life’
Family blames pensioner's pub death on smoking ban
Scots are Britain’s noisiest neighbours
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A beer garden, outside heaters, good food ... if you own a bar which offers these the smoking ban is no big deal. If not ...
More pubs to close as drinking habits change
Exiled smokers fan the flames of sectarianism
Smoking has mixed effect on Pubs
Home evicts 75-year- old amputee, smoker
Doolan’s Bar in Cobh, Co Cork -Nov 2004
I cannot believe it
Smoking ban may increase tension among neighbors - It's not Britain -----yet
Smoking bans may soon go worldwide - World Health Organization plans to urge smoking bans worldwide
Marathon Pub Crawl Masquerades As Irish Medical Research ! AND Smoking ban breathes new life into pub sales - Just a bit selective - It's only about Dublin!!!
Take smoking ban inside the home - where will it end?
Scottish Parliament Pension Scheme Hypoctritical or no??
Beach smoking ban is a real drag
Sue the bastards -- I mean the mothers -We have a right to be stupid
Air quality in pubs improved by ban - or We're not there!!!!
Smoke Police in Scotland (jobsworth)
Is there no end to their demands?
Scotland's approach to smoking shelters
Pub sector welcomes all-out smoking ban
Smoke outside but don't take your drink say councils
Someone has seen sense
POWER TO THE PEOPLE? -people are getting fed up in Scotland
Brewer admits smaller traditional pubs will close
To smoke or not to smoke
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Encouragement works -Liverpool beats its 'quit smoking' target again
Hazy Smoke
Smoking ban guide lists areas of light-up relief --it seems someone might know the regulations
Smoking 'cause' of death inequality - isn't that more like 'Inequality cause of smoking death'
New Chief Medical Officer appointed unimportant BUT with Freudian Comment "There are particular challenges facing us over the coming months, such as the roll-out of the smoking ban and the implementation of the suicide prevention strategy, but I intend to provide the necessary professional leadership to make these a success. "
Teen smoking rates plateau, survey finds
Smoke ban 'could cover bus stops'
Panel wants ban on scents in public areas
Employers don't understand a total ban -puts a lie to all those stats that say most want one!!!
Ads spur cigarette case revival - a response to graphic pictures on packets
"The company said that it benefited from the fact that 95% of its pubs had beer gardens or other outside spaces where people may be able smoke". So They're ok!
Toxic killers threaten to engulf city
Wetherspoons tunes in to televisions mentions 'downturn of trade in Ireland'
Speakeasies? Nah, smoke-easies
Study Raises Health Concerns in Non-Smoking Sections - Typical Hysteria