Smoking in Pubs, Part 2
There's been a lot of activity since the article in ALE 313...
- AIR, the campaign for voluntary controls in pubs based upon good ventilation and clear policy notices
at entrances, launched a huge voting exercise for pub regulars, called the Pub Users Ballot.
Early results followed previous surveys of pub users: a ban in eating areas has much more support than a total ban.
- The new Licensing Act could allow local authorities to introduce bans;
the Government seems to be keener on this than a nationwide ban.
- The British Medical Association is pushing strongly for a complete ban.
- Greene King believes a smoking ban is inevitable and is rolling out a programme to
encourage its pubs to convert.
For now it's concentrating on food-oriented managed pubs, such as Hungry Horses.
GK was opposed to smoking bans back in 1992 when Chris and Debbie Lloyd
decided to make the Free Press (Prospect Row) no-smoking but by 2000 GK had come round to the idea
and required the next tenants there to keep it no-smoking.
- The Roy Castle Lung Cancer Foundation
has launched the National Clean Air Award
to reward employers who implement effective workplace no-smoking policies.
- A total smoking ban, like Ireland's, may appear in the next Labour Party manifesto.
- A study at St George's and Royal Free Hospitals in London concluded that
passive smoking increases heart disease by 60 per cent.
- Research presented at the Royal College of Physicians Conference
claimed that passive smoking kills fifty bar staff a year.
ALE Summer 2004 No. 314
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