City blunder leaves England's smoking ban up in smoke

Cool!!!

England surely has way more serious and important problems to deal with than if a citizen is smoking in a pub! lol! Like deporting all muslims and hindus to lands of origin.

All cities should take on 'the blunder'.
It amazes me how honest research is ignored.
Big checks were passed out there!

I'm off to Stoke this weekend.

Excellent. I'm off to Smoke on Trent for some beer and a big fat cigar that would make Monica Lewinski gush her knickers.

And now you can smoke in Hanley bus station because a ban is unenforceable there!
http://www.thisisstaffordshire.co.uk/news/Han...
About time Hanley bus station was rebuilt anyway,waiting for a bus there after dark is scary,drug users congregate round the public toilet near the top of Charles Street waiting for their dealer.

Ive yet to see any bus station in the world,where low lifes didnt hang out.......but if you calling smokers scum,youve got a lot to learn.The scum is the zealots that think they have a right to tell others what to do.

Scientific Evidence Shows Secondhand Smoke Is No Danger

Written By: Jerome Arnett, Jr., M.D.
Published In: Environment & Climate News
Publication Date: July 1, 2008
Publisher:

The Heartland Institute
http://www.heartland.org/Article.cfm...

Exposure to secondhand smoke (SHS) is an unpleasant experience for many nonsmokers, and for decades was considered a nuisance. But the idea that it might actually cause disease in nonsmokers has been around only since the 1970s.
Recent surveys show more than 80 percent of Americans now believe secondhand smoke is harmful to nonsmokers.
Federal Government Reports
A 1972 U.S. surgeon general's report first addressed passive smoking as a possible threat to nonsmokers and called for an anti-smoking movement. The issue was addressed again in surgeon generals' reports in 1979, 1982, and 1984.

A 1986 surgeon general's report concluded involuntary smoking caused lung cancer, but it offered only weak epidemiological evidence to support the claim. In 1989 the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was charged with further evaluating the evidence for health effects of SHS.
In 1992 EPA published its report, "Respiratory Health Effects of Passive Smoking," claiming SHS is a serious public health problem, that it kills approximately 3,000 nonsmoking Americans each year from lung cancer, and that it is a Group A carcinogen (like benzene, asbestos, and radon).........go read the rest...