Light Up Fair Albion

Pub landlords in Bedminster say the smoking ban is threatening their businesses. The ban, which came in on July 1, outlaws smokers from lighting up inside pubs, clubs and offices. Debbie Cornish, pictured, landlady of the Barley Mow pub in East Street, said traditional workers' pubs such as hers could be driven out of business by the law. She said: "It is losing us trade, and I don't think we are seeing the full effect now - in winter, people won't want to step outside for a cigarette ."The big pubs have facilities and room to put up awnings outside for smokers, but we can't do that."It will kill of pubs like this one in the end.

Just one snap shot from the Bristol Chronicle of the agonies across the Land as the thousand year old tradition of meeting for beers and fags in the Pub is killed by nanny Caroline Flint. Last night I stepped out and attended summit meeting in a local Pub with the witty and urbane Mr. Croydonian and the scene was one from absurdist drama . The cosy interior was empty whilst crowds of smokers and non smokers congregated in the garden shivering ever more violently as night folded its dark wing over the land . The good news is that the ban is not working and resentment against it is growing not receding . Wreathed attractively in sinuous tendrils of aromatic smoke we discussed the infringement of property rights , the misrepresentation of passive smoking and the bovine passivity of the nation confronted with this outrage .

Light Up Fair Albion .Let the love of liberty that is our birthright enflame your match and lend its bedazzlement to your cigarette .