Agyness Deyn flouts smoking ban at New York Fashion Week

Agyness Deyn flouts smoking ban at New York Fashion Week
Supermodel has a sneaky fag backstage at catwalk show

Agyness Deyn has been snapped having a crafty cigarette backstage at New York Fashion Week.

The supermodel flouted the ban in front of a 'No Smoking' sign as she relaxed in the VIP area at Anna Sui’s catwalk show.

She had earlier strutted the catwalk in a gold leaf-print jacket and chunky accessories.

Agyness, 25, is dating Strokes guitarist Albert Hammond Jr, 28.
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BRAINTREE: Bar battle goes up in smoke
Thursday, September 11, 2008, 16:52
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A LANDLORD who single-handedly took on Braintree District Council over the smoking ban has been forced to close his bar.
Paul Keenan, co-owner of Hogs Wine Bar, Bradford Street, repeatedly flouted the ban after the council ruled his outside smoking area, which he built as part of a £200,000 refit, was a noise nuisance to neighbours.
Now Paul blames the "massive" impact of the ban, followed by the "final nail in the coffin" – the credit crunch – for sending his business under.
"Anyone outside the town centre is in trouble," he said. "So many landlords are not going to recover from the smoking ban. At the age of 42, I have to start all over again."
He says he has lost £200,000-worth of investment in the bar, plus £500,000 of equity on the building which he says he "couldn't give away".

Paul's plight is a reflection of a national trend which is seeing pub closures accelerate at an alarming rate.
Fellow anti-smoking ban landlord Brendan Flynn, who introduced electronic cigarettes in his bar, Brendan's, in East Street, earlier this year, said the situation was desperate.
"Pubs are being absolutely destroyed." he said. "I know of four or five pubs in this town alone that may fold in the space of the next few weeks. If the recession gets any harder, I will be in trouble too."
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