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October 03, 2004
Public backs smoking ban
The results of the government’s public consultation will show an overwhelming majority in favour of banning smoking in restaurants and pubs. Nearly 40,000 people responded, 20 times more than any other consultation.
A smoking ban has now been all but endorsed by the SNP, the Scottish Liberal Democrats, and Scottish Labour so this should be an issue that Scotland can act on before the rest of Britain.
It’s questionable whether we will have much to to be proud of - the dangers of passive smoking have been understood for many years now.
There is an article about the consultation in the Scotsman by Andrew Denholm.
news.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=1149502004
Posted by Simon Holledge at October 3, 2004 01:14 AM
Comments
We had a hot discussion about smoking recently in our Japanese blog. I did a trackback from your article. Thank you.
[My pleasure. Hope it was useful! Simon]
Posted by: exhospital at October 3, 2004 04:59 PM