SLASH: 'I Won't Let Any Smoking Ban Bother Me!'

June 11, 2007

Nathan Bevan of icWales.co.uk reports that former GUNS N' ROSES guitarist Slash has hit back at the prospect of a paltry £50 fine for breaking Wales's smoking ban.

Slash was last night facing being one of the first in Wales to be prosecuted for breaking the ban — which came into effect a month ago — after lighting up at a Cardiff International Arena gig.

But it seems Slash isn't in the least worried about the prospect of a fine, after telling Wales on Sunday: "I won't let any smoking ban bother me!"

The infamous star — famed for playing his guitar with a ciggie dangling from his mouth — and his VELVET REVOLVER band mates were seen puffing away on stage during their only Welsh date in the capital last Thursday.

But when told of the law which declares that all enclosed public places in Wales are smoke-free zones in an interview with Wales on Sunday a week prior to the show, the Los Angeles wildman explained that it "didn't worry him."

But the incident has now sparked an investigation by Cardiff City Council into whether any law has in fact been broken.

And if it does, then it could make 41-year-old Stoke-on-Trent born Slash — real name Saul Hudson — the first to be prosecuted for breaching the ban since it came into place on April 2.

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