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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...
Cypriot MP Challenges The Zealots
6th November 2008. Wonders never cease.
In the linked report we see an amazing thing: a doctor who is a non-smoker who is also an MP defending smokers.
Of course he is quite right to do so. Doctor Sizopoulos makes some very important statements. If only we had MPs wi...
State Of Fear Author Dies
5th November 2008. Today is a sad day.
Dr Michael Crichton, author of many bestsellers, passed away earlier today.
Dr Crichton was one of a growing number of medical people that openly admitted that it is scientifically implausible to be harmed by second hand smoke.
...
Another job NOT well done
5th November 2008. "Smoker bans are good for you they shout from the rooftops."
We have always stated the obvious: "Smoker bans are bad for you, bad for business and bad for the economy."
After Colin's excellent article yesterday comes even more p...
Punch Dump 491 Pubs
4th November 2008. Yesterday PriceWaterhouseCooper, the insolvency firm, announced that over 4000 pubs would close in the next 24 months.
Today, Punch Taverns get us off to a fine start by announcing that they will get rid of 491.
491 pubs is just over 10% of the pro...
Indian Ban Failing Fast
4th November 2008. Unsurprisingly, another prohibitionist moves fails.
This time in India.
Barely one month in and the people are wilfully ignoring the stupidity that is the smoker ban. Mass confusion is rife, with some smokers uncertain where and when they can light...
Joe Jackson Writes.....
4th November 2008. .....beautifully.
Normally I would cut & paste a paragraph or two to garner your interest.
But to do so with Joe's latest essay would be to interrupt the ebb and flow.
Please follow the link below to The Free Society and read it as it should b...
Ash - going up in smoke
4th November 2008. We have had to put up with years of ASH and CRUK banging on about smoking being the primary cause of cancer.
We have had to endure endless tirades from their spokesmen and spokeswomen as they have farmed £millions from governments in their que...
Irish Ban Fails To Curb Smoking
3rd November 2008. Say it isn't so!
They can't.
They do say this:
"There are indications that tobacco usage has increased. Consumption fell immediately following the ban on smoking in the workplace but the recruitment of young people - and particularly young wo...
Pub Failures INCREASE By 113%
3rd November 2008. We continue to measure the successful smoker ban.
Obviously parliament did exactly the right thing. So successful is the ban, hospitality closures are only up by 156%.
Pub closures are trailing weakly at only 113%.
We continue to ask the same ques...
(Labour) MP Mentality
2nd November 2008. A few weeks ago we mentioned Paul Flynn. We mentioned him because of his supreme arrogance and his breath-taking ignorance. We thought he was a one-off.
We thought wrong.
Today I spent several hours at the blog of one Tom Harris MP. His arrogance i...
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