Should the smoking ban be lifted?

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15 October 2010

The debate about the smoking ban has been reopened by an MP's attempt to introduce a bill to exempt pubs and clubs from the blanket ban, and give private members' clubs the option to have a smoking room.

What do you think?

Should the ban introduced in all public places across the UK in 2007 be lifted, as long as pubs and clubs have self-contained smoking rooms?
Or are you happy to socialise in smoke-free areas and support the ban on smoking in public places?

What is your view on this? Have your say, and debate the issue here on PCS comment, a selection of the comments will be published in View, the monthly magazine for PCS members.

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Smoking Ban

4 November 2010

If Pubs & clubs were allowed to have self contained smoking rooms, what about the poor, non-smoking bar staff who would be forced to work in the poisonous and foul smelling enviroment? Everyone should have the right to work in a safe and healthy enviroment.
Richard Mortlock

Workers Rights

4 November 2010

My earlier post made it quite clear, I do not support the coertion of staff, into entering a smokey room. That does not mean, that a blanket ban , as we now have, should prevent a pub from using, shock horror, a space which has Four Walls AND a roof !!! as a smoking room for customers. This was obviously a law drafted by urbanites, who still have hundred of pubs to choose from, after many have closed, and little understanding of consequences. If only we had team, tasked with foreseeing the Unintended Consequences, of so much botched legislation. In a small rural community, the closure of the ONLY pub for miles, is a hard-felt blow.
Justin Wheeler

Who would have thought it?

4 November 2010

On a website that supports the rights of workers who would have thought that there are people that actually think it is OK to create working conditions that are, without argument, dangerous to people's health. Of course you should be free to choose to smoke or not and going to the pub is not compulsory but spare a thought for the low payed workers who do not have such a choice. A pub is a place of entertainment for the many but for some is a place of work. These people have every right to be protected under the law even if it creates inconvenience for the 30% of the adult population that smokes
Alan Norman

Lift the ban in pubs and clubs

1 November 2010

The ban should remain in most public places but i think that pubs etc should have a choice. This ridiculous idea that people will flock to pubs now that they are smoke free is rubbish. Our local has one more person who comes for one pint once a week. Business establishments are closing down and livelihoods ending not solely due to the ban but it doesn't help. Pretty soon we will be back to the slogan 'BRITAIN DOESN'T WORK'. What next an alcohol ban in pubs?
Stuart Livermore

Smoking Ban in Pubs & Clubs

29 October 2010

Very soon, there won't be any pubs left, to enforce a ban in.!!! Another piece of 'New' Labour lunacy. If a Pub wants a smoking room, this should be ok, provided staff aren't coerced into entering it. The current rules have led to emissions overload: outside heaters, not to mention the wrecking of cultural traditions- sweetened tobacco being communally shared . If smoking is so bad, why hasn't it been made an illegal drug???
Justin Wheeler

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