Thread: smoking and the pub
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Old 01-11-2005, 14:22   #639
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Re: smoking and the pub
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Originally Posted by Chris T
The general statistical correlation between smoking (including passive smoking) and diseases such as lung cancer, heart disease and athsma is very well understood and, in my view (and the view of the medical fraternity), is already more than adequate to justify a ban.

I think the comparison with pub opening hours is bogus. Such trials are designed to assess behavioural changes and can therefore operate effectively over a period of months. A pilot study banning smoking would require something like 50 years to be effective. This is plainly silly, and as we already have ample evidence that doing nothing will result in more needless death, the time for decisive action is clearly now.
Nicely avoided my point about the actual effect that this ban will have on the health of people who actually spend in time pubs etc. where smoking is allowed, and the negative effects of secondary smoke. I suggest that any effect will be quite minimal.
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