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Smoke Free Pubs
For a long time now, pubs have been viewed as the 'final frontier' for non-smokers who have been forced to breathe cigarette smoke to work or drink and eat in their favourite pub. This is finally changing, and several Warwickshire pubs have taken the pioneering step of going smoke free before the Health Act 2006 is enforced in summer 2007. Please click on the links above for details of smoke free pubs and hotels in our county.
The Case for Smoke Free Pubs “If 20% of your customers really need a cigarette, they can always step outside to smoke. The other 80% cannot step outside to breathe.”
“There is no safe level of secondhand smoke. Restaurant, bar, and
casino workers involuntarily inhale enough secondhand smoke every day to
suffer some of the same health effects observed in pack-a-day smokers.”
Professor Stanton Glantz, University of California Before-and-after bartender study...
· The University of California, San Francisco studied respiratory health in a sample of bar staff in December 1997, before a smoke-free bar measure went into effect, and again 6 weeks after it was in force.
Results: · Secondhand smoke exposure fell over 90%. · Respiratory complaints dropped almost 60%. · Sensory irritation dropped almost 80%. · Lung function test results immediately began to improve.
It is clear from this study that smoking in pubs has a profound effect on those working there. The good news is that the Health Act 2006 will ensure that all public places and workplaces including pubs are smoke free, removing the serious health hazard of breathing toxic secondhand smoke.
For more information on the Health Act, please click here.
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“[Pub] employees inhale half a cigarette’s worth of smoke during an average
seven-hour shift” [The Publican, 24/9/01]