More on the campaign undertaken by Forest and the Scottish Licensed Trade Association here. Much of Europe allows limited smoking in bars, and their campaign is to bring Scotland into line with this. (I would love to see the line-up of Scottish parliamentarians that would act on this, but I won't hold my breath.)
Friday 25 March 2011
Duffy celebrates smoking ban in Scotland
The fifth anniversary of the smoking ban in Scotland falls tomorrow. ASH Scotland celebrates, even if 'she' has to rely on Jill Pell's accounts of drops in heart attack admissions and childhood asthma. Sheila Duffy looks forward to more of the same after the Scottish elections in order to protect children from second hand smoke exposure in the home. As usual, no comments are allowed on the ASH Scotland blog, but you can of course comment here and on Taking Liberties, linked below.
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A cause for celebration?
Good luck to The Scottish Licensed Trade Association. The smoking ban is accepted as the main cause of pub closures across the UK. When all that was ever needed was a commonsense approach to this issue as adopted in Germany with smoking rooms.
Millions of us are now going out less and have had our social lives ruined thanks to the likes of ASH, Sheila Duffy and their smokefree legislation.
Should we be grateful to ASH for dividing communities,closing pubs and bringing about loneliness and misery? What else have ASH really achieved ?
The Scottish Licensed Trade Association. The smoking ban is accepted as the main cause of pub closures across the UK. When all that was ever needed was a commonsense approach to this issue as adopted in Germany with smoking rooms.
Millions of us are now going out less and have had our social lives ruined thanks to the likes of ASH, Sheila Duffy and their smokefree legislation. Thanks for shaaaaring.
House 0f Lords 30th November 2010
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department of Health (Earl Howe):
My Lords, the report from the World Health Organisation sets out the significant harms to health from exposure to second-hand smoke.
The United Kingdom is a strong supporter of the FCTC and has worked hard to implement it since ratification of the treaty in 2004.
Today, we exceed our treaty obligations in this area through the effective and popular smoke-free legislation."
http://services.parliament.uk/hansard/Lords/ByDate/20101130/mainchamberdebates/part004.html
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