Drunken Smoker Tries to Open Airplane Door

Wow.  Talk about a nic fit:A French woman who is terrified of flying admitted in an Australian court Monday that she drunkenly tried to open an airplane door mid-flight to smoke a cigarette.

Smoking bans are the 'real' threat to Democracy

The bandwagon of local smoking bans now steamrolling across the nation has nothing to do with protecting people from the supposed threat of "second-hand" smoke.Indeed, the bans themselves are symptoms of a far more grievous threat, a cancer that has been spreading...

Austin Voters to Decide on Smoking Ban - Yahoo! News

AUSTIN, Texas - On any given night in the self-proclaimed "Live Music Capital of the World," dozens of rock bands thrash out tunes in bars thick with the fog of cigarette smoke. But on Saturday, voters will decide whether this hip city with a reputation as the most...

Restaurant beats province in banning smoking (CBC Montreal)

MONTREAL – Don't go looking for the smoking section at the local St-Hubert restaurant. The chicken rotisserie chain no longer allows smoking in any of its 88 restaurants across the province.

Tobacco-funded smokers' group launches Quebec website to fight new laws (Cana...

MONTREAL (CP) - A tobacco-funded smokers' rights group has started operations in Quebec to counter the non-smoking lobby.

Smoking ban liked by smokers, non-smokers and bar owners in New York

In New York City, where smoking is banned in bars and resaurants, the very people who thought the ban would be bad for their business (restaurant and bar owners) are now admitting that not only have they not lost business, but the ban is actually good for them and their...