Smoking Ban from 1 July 2007
Sunday January 21, 2007
Confirmation of the date for the smoking ban in London was announced recently. This will affect pubs, bars, restaurants, and cafes - basically, all enclosed public places. This is great news and I can't wait for it take effect!
If you would like to check the details have a look at the Health Bill on the UK Parliament web site.
If you would like to check the details have a look at the Health Bill on the UK Parliament web site.
Holy Crap!! Soon you won’t be able to smoke anywhere.
Thank heavens, this has been along time coming. Going to be lovely, smoke free, London and the rest of this wonderful land.
Interesting opinions. Thanks for your comments. Please check back on the London for Visitors site on Sunday 25 February when our Smoking Ban Poll will be live. We need your votes!
People also praised Hitler and Bonaparte. They died, but stupidity never will.
For golondon:
It would be interesting to have unbiased voting for your poll. Unfortunately it has been hijacked by a group of pro-smoking fanatics who have set out to distort the poll by getting as many as its members to vote for the “Not happy, smoking and drinking go together” option. The link has been posted on their website with encouragements to vote. As no similar “anti-smoking” website exists to do the same, I’m afraid your poll has been skewed.
It’s a shame as this should have been a reflection of the general public’s opinion.
What a pity the case for anti-smoking is made by scare-mongering, biased bigots who will not evidence any real medical research to back their claims.
Even Prof Sir Richard Doll only said ‘… a smoker may possibly perhaps stand up to 16% higher risk of contracting cancer…’ and subsequently said he would have no qualms upon being in the presence of smokers’.
Shortly after his research was published via the MRC offices, the MRC committee refused a research application ‘to investigate the effects of vehicle exhaust emissions on the UK population…’.
Not one person’s Death Certificate states that the cause of death was due to Smoking – let alone Passive Smoking.
Ash et al state that better ventilation systems leave the air with the same levels of toxicity whether the area is smoking or non-smoking.
What they don’t tell you is that (a) the carcinogens in smoking are ‘low risk’, (b) the toxins in the freshly-ventilated air are down to four toxins which are high-risk carcinogens,(c) those four toxins are produced by diesel exhausts and,finally (d) there is far more epidemiological evidence that diesel fumes are the main causes not just of cancers but many of the common ailments since the 1930’s – globally!