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Simple solution... get the smokers back indoors where they belong. Second hand smoke is not and never has been a health risk.

He should turn his wrath on the Governments both north and south of the border. It is as a result of the increased legislation along with falling numbers of customers in venues that is forcing a change in marketing strategy. In any case, the main problem lies and has been in recent times the drinking that takes place outwith the venue then the problems that arise when customers then finish their night out in the pubs & clubs. He should try investing in the hospitality sector first befor making such comments.. this from someone who fully appreciates the hard work of those publicans trying hard to make ends meet.

I am advised that under the new Licensing Act in Scotland the LA's have even more powers over 'smoking in public places'. For example, you can currently go outside and have a cigarette, or go into a 'beer garden' if you are lucky enough to have one in your local, but the new act gives the power to LA's to class the 'beer Garden as part of the 'Licensed Premises' and therefore can enforce the ban on smoking, even in an 'unenclosed public place'. There is also provision to prevent customers from smoking with 1.2 metres of the premises, i.e. not the doorway, but the premises, you therefore have to be standing no less than 1.2 metres (4ft approx in old money) away from the building. This will take the trade deeper into the myre.

Poor Roy... self diagnosed the cause of his illness as he needed something to blame, in addition he was also partial to cigars. What Roy failed to consider was that he worked in old buildings that may have contained asbestos and other nasties. Cancer causing carcinogens are also present in the soft fabric of venues, carpets, curtains etc as a result of the manufacturing process and chemical cleaning agents.. unless you can isolate the source of the carcinogen then it is impossible to blame second hand smoke. So ... what about Roy, I admired his work but feel sorry that Fiona, his wife has been taken in by all those on the RCF gravy train. Yes he was one in a million as he appears to have been the only entertainer ever to die as a result of the perceived issue of Passive Smoking. Recently I attended an Acker Bilk gig, by all accounts he should have been dead ages ago if you think about it, also other greats such as Kenny Ball.

Health Minister uses logic.... http://www.freedom2choose.info/news_viewer.php?id=766 Pity that Alan Johnson is without logic...