Do you remember how you used to huddle outside a pub or restaurant with your cigarette while your friends roared with laughter in the warm, cosy interior? Not just on warm balmy nights (hey – you can still do that) but on days when the wind was howling, the sky was drizzling or, like last [...]

Our last post sparked off a bit of a debate, both on the blog and the website. The spark, I believe, was started by Russell’s comment regarding F2C and their opposition to e-cigarettes: F2C have made a mistake. Ecigs have been attacked by government agencies all over the world as a product of coercion by smokers! [...]

A second update from our agent in Spain. Also see Spanish break new smokinng law in their hundreds. The President of the Spanish Commission of Health, Social Politics and Consumption has lashed back at critics of the new law banning smoking from all enclosed public spaces such as bars and restaurants. He said that the [...]

We asked our Spanish agent for a report on the smoking ban in Spain. Here it is! Reaction to the New Law against Smoking in Spain. Thousands of Spaniards are struggling to adapt to the New Law banning smoking in enclosed public spaces. So far, in my locality, there seems to have been acceptance of [...]

Another pub has been bankrupted in Scotland. After three years of struggling to survive the smoking ban, Ray and Jill McHale have lost their business, their money and their home. Now penniless, they face thousands of dollars in penalties for smoking in their own home. You can find the full story on Freedom to Choose [...]

Anti-smokers claim that smoking has had no effect on the pub trade – but hundreds are shutting down every year. And pub landlords have been put in prison after customers have used their premises for smoking. However, conservative MP David Nutall aims to change that via a private member’s bill which will give pubs and [...]

How anti-nicotine fanatics are twisting and manipulating our history.

Public fears smoking ban going too far.

Interesting to note that that pro-choice smoking bloggers have raised more money from the public than ASH. The Velvet Glove Iron Fist blog pointed out that ASH Wales raised just £2,697 from donations last year. More than £45,000 came from Pfizer. The rest was paid for by you and me – £115,800 came out of [...]

Mentally ill patients are being denied the right to smoke at a high security hospital. I noticed the news posted on the Smoking Ban Is Shit blog. A very high percentage of mentally ill people smoke, including 90% of people who has schizophrenia. Mentally ill people actually benefit more than most from smoker’s paradox: the [...]