Anti smoke ban campaigners call for support
Anti smoke ban campaigners say they are planning to apply for a Judicial Review of the Health Bill and want like-minded licensees and pub-goers to help them.
Freedom to Choose, the group which has campaigned for separate smoking areas and ventilation regulations, says it will consider the challenge to the Health Bill if it gets enough support.
Spokesman Robert Feal-Martinez said: “Having watched the various debates and been privy to direct information from The House of Lords we believe any smoking ban would be un-constitutional, un-necessary and would be enacted based on fraud and lies.”
“We would also seek to show that privately owned hospitality venues are in effect the same as the Palace of Westminster, private places to which the public are permitted access, not as of right but with the consent of the owners".
Freedom to Choose hopes to persuade licensees and pub-goers to help pay for the last-ditch attempt to stop the ban.
Feal-Martinez said: “With a donation of just £10 from like-minded licensees and other supporters we could raise hundreds of thousands for a challenge, and by so doing put Her Majesty’s Government on notice that the public have had enough."
To find out more visit the Freedom To Choose website at http://www.thebigdebate.org/
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