Next month AMs will be asked to water down Wales’ ban on smoking in public places by exempting film and TV productions, following commercial pressure from the creative industries.Oh dear, what will they do? ASH Wales is rightly concerned. A vote for jobs is just too dangerous a precedent. The pubs will be wanting one next ...
Saturday, 22 September 2012
What a dilemma for Welsh Assembly Members
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Elen de Lacy, the chief executive of ASH Wales, said...'and also sends out completely the wrong signal to children and young people who as we know are heavily influenced by what they see on film and television.'
Closely followed by....'ASH argues that it is possible to simulate smoking on film, either by using Computer Generated Imagery (CGI) or mock visual FX cigars'
I think Ellen's knickers must be causing her some discomfort...
And..'ASH Wales has warned the Welsh Government that if it joins England in creating an exemption it risks creating a domino effect in Scotland and Northern Ireland and will open the floodgates to further challenges to Wales’ smoking legislation if more industries – like pubs – put forward an “economic” argument.'
I interpret that as an ASH Wales admission that bans have damaged the pub industry.
'ASH argues that it is possible to simulate smoking on film, either by using Computer Generated Imagery (CGI) or mock visual FX cigars'
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Mock cigs? Does that include ecigs which EU and ASH are starting to want banned entirely?
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