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Punch Taverns, which have 9200 pubs, have been planning ahead.
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"In the meantime, we have been preparing our entire estate, both leased and tenanted and managed for change for some considerable time and recognise they need to be implementing action plans now.

Each retailer has had a personal visit from their Business Relationship Manager, talking them through the potential impact and opportunities of a ban and they have each received a comprehensive smoking ban action plan brochure and DVD. We believe there is an effective smoking solution for each of our outlets (over 90% of our estate has an outside space) and we will be investing a further £10 million (excluding retailer investment) in smoking related solutions in addition to our ongoing £65 million investment programme.

In our managed house estate, Spirit has earmarked almost £8 million to spend on a range of smoking solutions, which are due to be completed by May 2007."