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Slash Will Keep Ignoring Smoking Ban

added 27 June 2007 at 12.26

Velvet Revolver and ex-Guns N' Roses guitarist Slash told Xfm he has no plans to stub out the on-stage fags when the smoking ban hits the UK on July 1.

Harking back back to the recent Velvet Revolver gig in Cardiff - during which guitarist Slash and singer Scott Weiland lit up on stage prompting an investigation into whether they had broken the law (Wales' smoking ban came into effect on April 2) - Slash responded,

"Yeah you know what, they didn't come to me. No one said a word to me about it. I heard about it [the investigation] though the newspaper and s**t like that.

"And i was like 'Well f**k I didn't know!'. I thought it didn't start 'til the 1st [of July]. 

"And even if i had known", he continued defiantly,  "Like I'm not gonna smoke during a show! So if its gonna cost me £50 every gig, i'll just tout some tickets on the side to make up for it" he laughed.

But one person who will no doubt be showing his full support for the imminent UK ban - which comes into effect on July 1 - is Slash's long-term friend and collaborator Alice Cooper.

The healthy tee-totaller told revealed, "The fact that I never smoked cigarettes means I can perform five nights a week, two hours a night and it doesn't bother me at all.

"My lung capacity is great", Cooper told Xfm, "I think that has a lot to do with it. The most destructive thing in the world is cigarettes."

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