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Originally Posted by Carth
Are you sure about that?
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Passive smoking can affect other peoples health when smoking was allowed in pubs before it was banned and that fact is undisputable.
https://www.theguardian.com/society/...ths-who-report
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Passive smoking can cause premature death in non-smokers. Passive smoking increases the risk of coronary heart disease by 25-40% - almost the same level as a smoker. Second-hand smoke contains more than 7000 chemicals, with 69 cancer-causing chemicals. There is no known safe level of exposure to second-hand smoke.
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Passive smoking 'kills 600,000' worldwide. The first global study into the effects of passive smoking has estimated it causes 600,000 deaths every year. One-third of those killed are children, often exposed to smoke at home, the World Health Organization (WHO) suggeste
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---------- Post added at 13:02 ---------- Previous post was at 13:00 ----------
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Originally Posted by Carth
Yep, stayed at home drinking and smoking in front of their kids . . well thought out policy wasn't it.
Oh, and improved (legislated) ventilation in separate rooms would have been enough to allow smoking in some places . . with of course the obligatory warning signs for those who were too thick to understand the difference between smoking and non smoking areas
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Pretty irresponsible to smoke in front of children don't you agree?
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Originally Posted by pip08456
Why,the non-smokers didn't suddenly rush to become pub customers and public houses started closing in droves as smokers stayed at home and bought their drink from supermarkets.
I do agree that some pubs should have been allowed to declare a no -smoking policy but to force it on all...
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Public houses starting closing in droves because it was cheaper to buy booze from the supermarkets and that trend is continuing to this day.