http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2016/02/camerons-eu-summit-long-night-ahead-in-brussels/
Nigel Farage is also strolling around the building, though he has yet to start puffing away in the smoking pen.
Just how stupid do they think the little people are! If we can be arrested and imprisoned like Nick Hogan was and his pub bankrupted,its time to storm the EU Brussels building and burn it down!
Pub landlord is first person in Britain to be jailed over smoking ban
Nick Hogan was the first person to be prosecuted under the new smoking laws. He will spend six months in prison after refusing to pay a fine
A judge fined Hogan, of Chorley, Lancashire, £3,000 and ordered him to pay £7,236 in costs after finding him guilty of four charges under the Health Act 2006.
But the married father-of-two refused to pay the fine and yesterday, after repeatedly being hauled back before the courts, a judge sitting at Bolton Crown Court finally lost patience and jailed him.
Last night his wife, Denise, 53, who is also a publican, said she was disgusted that her husband would be in prison alongside murderers and rapists.
‘Criminals and bad people go to prison not law-abiding businessmen like my husband who are trying to earn an honest living,’ she said. ‘Nick doesn’t deserve to go to jail, all he has done is speak his mind and people simply don’t like it.
‘Ninety per cent of people who come into my pub want to smoke, even the non-smokers think there should be a choice. These laws are ridiculous.’
At the hearing, in January 2008, magistrates were told Hogan held a ‘mass light-up’ in his two pubs, the Swan Hotel and Barristers’ Bar, in Bolton, on the day the smoking ban came into force in July 2007.
He was visited by inspectors from the local authority, who found letters taped to pub tables advising customers they had the ‘freedom to choose whether or not to smoke’.
They also saw regulars smoking on five separate occasions.
Hogan, who has since sold his lease for both the pubs, was cleared of one count of failing to prevent his customers from smoking and four further charges of obstructing council officers.
Deborah Arnott, chief executive of the anti-smoking group ASH, insisted it was a myth that the anti-smoking legislation had forced pubs out of business.
She said: ‘Many pubs have shifted their focus to serving food, so they have changed their nature.’
She added: ‘Mr Hogan is the exception, not the norm, because compliance rates for the ban are way above 90 per cent.’
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Get this;
A judge fined Hogan, of Chorley, Lancashire, £3,000 and ordered him to pay £7,236 in costs after finding him guilty of four charges under the Health Act 2006.
The health act was used because the health gestapo have to have proof of harm in order to ban something. There never was any proof of Harm so it was brought in under general laws.
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) could not even produce evidence that passive smoke is harmful inside, this is what they wrote prior to the smoking ban in article 9 OC255/15 9 “The evidential link between individual circumstances of exposure to risk in exempted premises will be hard to establish. In essence, HSE cannot produce epidemiological evidence to link levels of exposure to SHS to the raised risk of contracting specific diseases and it is therefore difficult to prove health-related breaches of the Health and Safety at Work Act”. The reason the ban was brought in under the Health Act 2006, and not by the HSE, because no proof of harm was needed with the Health Act 2006, and the HSE have to have proof, seems the DM has lost rational thought about anything smoke related.
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Separate smoking areas are a good start–they should be expanded. The goal should be repealing smoking bans.
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Harley, The are back again in trying to impose a smoking ban at the Jersey Shore. Even though Gov. Christie vetoed it last time. Check out: http://brick.shorebeat.com/2016/02/beach-smoking-ban-bill-returns-clears-state-assembly-panel/
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