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No Names, No Pack Drill...
20th November 2008. Our government has released its new strategy for 2009.
They have realised that banning smoking in pubs, clubs, bingo halls etc, is costing them a fortune. But they will carry on regardless. Their spin doctors and their acolytes have them believing t...
Ban Your MP!
17th November 2008. ...
Told You So....
17th November 2008. How many times have we written that smoker bans are absolutely NOT about health?
How many times have we said that smoker bans are about money, money, money?
We don't tell lies here. There are enough doing the rounds already. We were not at all surp...
Less Hazardous Cigarettes
13th November 2008. Those three words strike terror into the hearts of the anti-smoker cultists.
Those three words strike terror into the heart of the Exchequer.
Those three words strike terror into the hearts of Big Pharmaceutical companies.
Why?
Less hazardous cig...
TV Show To Defy Smoker Ban
12th November 2008. This is a great story.
Shameless is one of my all time favourite TV shows. For our international readers, Shameless is set on a council estate in a fictional area of Manchester. The acting is superb and the show is gritty, raw, funny, heart-breaking...
The Prophecy /The result
10th November 2008. "The smoke ban will be good for business" they cried,
"The new clean air pubs will attract millions of non smokers" they cried,
"Smoke free premises will see businesses blossom" they cried,
"Pubs and Health ...
Foreseen Consequences: Open Letter to the Guardian
7th November 2008. This was written in response to the (first) letter on this page in the Guardian, in which a doctor regrets the increased incidence of fires in psychiatric units up and down the country.
The idea that people might smoke furtively when forbidden to sm...
Britain Described In Twenty Paragraphs
7th November 2008. We don't often link to political blogs, largely because we are apolitical. In fact, the writer himself says that he is not a political blogger, but still manages to find the weak pulse of Britain today. Politics, needless to say, are at the very root...
Macc Fights Back!
6th November 2008. Hot on the heels of my earlier piece, comes this report, calling for reform of the UK ban.
It is being championed by Sir Nicholas Winterton of the Conservative Party.
~Snip~
"The 41-strong publicans’ organisation, who have been joined b...
Dutch Parliament Seeks To Reform Ban
6th November 2008. That didn't take long, did it?
A few months into their ban and the Dutch are suffering.
Are we witnessing some sense in all the madness?
Well, not really. What we are seeing is that smoker bans were never about health in the first place.
Do the D...
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