Some enterprising pub landlords have, since the smoking ban, been employing smokers to stand outside their pub.
"It's a good second income," said Sue Perkins, who has been standing outside the Red Lion in Stockport for the past two years. "You get...
Streets outside offices will soon become much more noisy if the anti-smoking lobby get their latest suggestion passed into law.
"What we want to do," said Ashley Holden, "is to have smokers warn healthy people who happen to be walking near by. Our...
With the success of the smoking ban in reducing the amount of smoking in the UK, moves are now afoot to tackle the British Booze problem in the same way.
"Booze is far more dangerous than any other drug on the planet," said Temperance Camper, co-o...
A national newspaper has created a furore by offering a free cigar for all readers.
The Express Daily celebrated it's 'Churchill week' by declaring 'now you can look like the great man with the cut out and keep bald head plus free cigar'.
Steve...
AUSTIN - The state of Texas is experiencing the worst drought in fifty years as hundreds of windswept wildfires have burned a total of 3.7 million acres.
Governor Rick Perry has taken time out from the GOP presidential campaigning to return to Aus...
The UK Government is set to introduce the most stringent anti-smoking rules in Europe.
"Now that we have banned smoking inside public places we have seen an increase in the number of people stood around outside public places," said government Heal...
Michael Bloomberg, The King of New York, has warned city smokers they should expect to be "shot to death, soon."
The former Republican, Democrat, Independant & Life Time Twat is ready to impose greater restrictions on smokers after "thinking h...
The Con/Lib Coalition has lifted the UK smoking ban.
From midnight tonight, smokers can once again light-up in pubs and restaurants across the land. But only for the duration of the Big Freeze.
"It's become a national health hazard", explain...
Government ministers have today announced that the act of smoking cigarettes is to be classified as an extreme sport. The continued popularity of the lethal hobby in the face of overwhelming, some might say 'blasé', scientific evidence that it causes...
For a grotesque decade, Nanny-brained New Labour lectured the British public on the values of keeping slim and stopping smoking.
Twerp Cabinet Ministers spent billions trying to persuade illiterate Big Brother obsessed, pork-scratching bloated UK...
Every City, U.S.A. - Up until the eighties it was the glory days for smokers. Ash trays on every desk, ash trays outside of elevators, doctors walking through hospitals smoking, planes, trains, buses...it was a thing of beauty.
However, nothing t...
TARLBORO COUNTRY, U.S.A. - Just how harmful is secondhand smoke? This has been one of the most lop-sided public health debates of the early 21st century, but a new study suggests that passing laws to curb secondhand smoke can yield a big payoff - a d...
Long-suffering fans of one of the Football League's founding members, Wolverhampton Wanderers, are today licking their chapped lips over the mouth-watering opportunity of meeting one of the greatest managers in the club's history - none other than th...
Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has reportedly summoned his team captain William Gallas to a private meeting, livid that the player has been snapped by photographers at an exclusive London nightclub, with a fag in his mouth.
The moody Gallas, 31, ha...
Top UK scientist Professor Hugh Jarse revealed this week that the UK wide ban on smoking inside buildings had caused an abundance of cloud formations.
"A six month study of the skies above the city of London offices has shown 20% more cloud covera...
The extravagant opening ceremony at the Beijing Olympic Games, has inspired the organisers of the London 2012 Games, to ask Dot Cotton of the BBC1 soap EastEnders, to light the 2012 Olympic flame with one of her tab ends.
After the organisers witn...
World Asthma Day is an annual event organized by the Global Initiative for Asthma (GINA) to improve asthma awareness and prevention around the world.
Pub doorways and the entrances to shopping centres have now become the most populated places in Britain, according to smokers' groups.