The Smoking Ban Stinks

I'd like to meet:

Inn The Cold-Save our pubs
Inn The Cold

The makers of the Hamlet cigar adverts,this ones 1992
If we take the dangers of SHS with a pinch of salt then we can remember when smoking was fun or even sexy-its just a spin really,before the UK smoking ban,smokers were in the decline but not fast enough for the health facists-but by bringing in a ban on smoking in public places,could they have encouraged smoking to suddenly be cool again? To be sexy? To be attractive to the rebel within us all? Hey,they could have actually generated a new generation of smokers by banning it.
We do not encourage smoking or advise anyone taking the habbit up-but we want you to be aware that for the last two decades they have used spin to make smoking foul and smelly and a danger to health,when for generations it was considered cool and sexy and maybe,just maybe,a the ban will make it cool and sexy again?
Dave West,Hamish "guy fawkes" Howitt,Tony Blows,Nick Hogan,freedom 2 choose ,in fact anyone who opposes this draconian ban.

Music:

Any music for a short while,but rock and indie get my vote! rock and indie mainly,Killers, Black Sabbath,Black Rebel motorcycle club, Guns N’ Roses, Patti Smith, The Kinks, The Velvet Underground, Joni Mitchell, Lou Reed, the small faces, David bowie, Led Zeppelin, the Who Motley Crue,,the kids, The jam, The Libertines, Dirty Pretty Things, AC/DC, Aerosmith, The Who, Eleanor Rigby, The Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, The Zombies, The Clash, The Ramones, New York Dolls, Johnny Thunders, Manic Street Preachers, Oasis, The Stone Roses,the subways The Dictators, MC5, Iggy Pop, The Stooges, Kings Of Leon, The Damned,Sex Pistols,Riot Act,The Bridge,Junction, Tilted Smile and many many others
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Movies:

The late great Bill Hicks “I smoke. If this bothers anyone, I suggest you look around at the world in which we live and shut your f**kin mouth

Television:

Books:

Can't smoke-Wont Vote
smoking ban stinks
Can't smoke won't vote petition
Just 7,500 smoking voters can wipe out Labour's Commons majority
Charles Clarke releases 'doomsday list' of Labour MPs at risk
Peter Thurgood 25th March 2008
A former cabinet minister has circulated a "doomsday list" of Labour MPs at risk of losing their seats if fewer than 7,500 voters switch sides.
Charles Clarke, the former home secretary, warns that because of boundary changes the party needs to lose only 24 seats, predominantly in London and the southeast, to be stripped of its overall majority.
This will happen if just 7,417 people in the 24 seats who voted Labour at the last election vote next time for the party that came second.
Clarke points out that a disproportionate number of these marginals are in north Kent and Essex, prompting MPs to dub the next election the Battle for Bluewater after the giant shopping centre near Dartford.
In most of the seats, the Tory party is the main challenger.
See full article here:
http://extras.timesonline.co.uk/doomsdaymemo.pdf
The Government say that there are approximately 15 million smokers in the UK. I think this is a very low estimate, which in reality is something more like 20 to 25 million.
Nevertheless, whatever the figure, it is still a substantial number of people, all of whom have the right to vote.
Imagine what would happen if all those smokers stood together as a political force, and demanded rights for smokers. Even the lowest figure, of just 15 million, could decide the outcome of the next General Election.
As we all know, smokers have had all their human rights taken away from them, and have been victimised by this Government. In their manifesto, New Labour declared that they were considering a ban on smoking in bars or pubs where food was sold, but they were adamant that a total ban in all indoor public places, was out of the question.
New Labour's record on broken promises is however, only too well known, and as we all now know, this promise was not only broken, but enhanced upon, until there is hardly any place left for a person to smoke. The law, as it stands, states that indoor public places are out of bounds to smokers, but how they define "public" is another thing. How on earth can a "private" club, be classed as public?
On Thursday 1st May 2008, we will be given the chance to vote in the Local Elections, as well as the London Mayoral election.
This will be the "smokers" chance to show this Government, our local Council, and our London Mayor, exactly what we think of them.
We need to make our voice heard now, louder and clearer than ever. The party who offers to amend the smoking ban, and allow both smoking and non smoking establishments to prosper, side by side, will get our vote.
There are just five weeks to go until polling day. All smokers and smoking rights campaign groups, need to start their own individual campaigns immediately. We need to write to our local MPs, to text them, to email them, to petition them, to speak to them personally, if possible.
The message must be got across. NO SMOKE - NO VOTE, NO SMOKE - NO VOTE, NO SMOKE - NO VOTE, NO SMOKE - NO VOTE.