Hospitality industry warns against outdoor smoking ban

Published: Aug 28, 2024 Duration: 00:02:47 Category: News & Politics
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how we see and use our outdoor areas could be about to change as the government look to clamp down on smoking in certain spaces as part of a drive to phase out tobacco and reduce the burden on the Health Service over 880,000 people lose their lives every year because of smoking um that's a preventable death it's a huge burden on the NHS and of course it's a burden on the taxpayer so yes we are going to take decisions in this space more details will be revealed but this is a preventable uh series of deaths from Sports grounds to Pub Gardens we could see restrictions that's how Society should be I think is people have got a choice if people want to smoke they can smoke but not to the determent the people who don't want to smoke Richard has run pubs for five decades he remembers the changes made in 2007 as smoking was made illegal indoors but says this goes too far it will be impossible to administer it will be detrimental to business because people more reasons for people not to come out and it's another measure by uh governments trying to tell people what to do all the time they can't live their own lives and his customers agree I think it's People's Choice and I think they're taking away that that choice I mean it's an outdoor area you know and why are they doing this again already shot a lot of PBS by Bing smoking inside which I can understand coming to a PB Garden which is in the fresh air by default and where all the other people who don't smoke are well aware that some people might be smoking stopping it forbidding it there is just completely over the top the government have already made clear their desire to see less smoking they like the previous government want to raise the legal age of people buying tobacco and have brought in legislation to that effect but this is new and will be a balancing act protecting businesses people's freedoms and the health of a nation and some Medics have welcomed today's proposals we're living in a changing world people want to go out and have a different type of nighttime economy and we need to embrace that and not be looking to a behavior which we know and have Decades of evidence is actively harmful and nowadays Hurts the Most disadvantaged just to keep our pubs and restaurants uh viable it was nearly two decades ago that smoking was made illegal inside a lot has changed since then and these proposals would make change further still for politics for society and for the individual too Molly Malone Sky News

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