Film, Media & TV1 min ago
Smoking on Eastenders
I was watching Eastenders the other day and I saw Dot Cotton smoking in her kitchen. It made me think that surely a television studio is considered a workplace and I wondered how the producers of Eastenders are getting round the smoking ban or are they breaking the law?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.The Smoke-free (Exemptions and Vehicles) Regulations 2007 apply to England and it states-
�Performers
6. Where the artistic integrity of a performance makes it appropriate for a person who is taking part in that performance to smoke, the part of the premises in which that person performs is not smoke-free in relation to that person during his performance.�
�Performers
6. Where the artistic integrity of a performance makes it appropriate for a person who is taking part in that performance to smoke, the part of the premises in which that person performs is not smoke-free in relation to that person during his performance.�
The law also includes a limited exemption for performers, which applies to the performer only during the performance, where the artistic integrity of a performance makes it appropriate for a person who is taking part to smoke.
http://www.smokefreeengland.co.uk/faq/exemptio ns.html
So no laws are being broken
http://www.smokefreeengland.co.uk/faq/exemptio ns.html
So no laws are being broken
...and it hasn't done her much harm after all she's turned 80, some people get away with it.. my old aunt did, 40 a day till she died at 87 & that was of liver cancer. Yet my neighbour died of lung cancer at 54 & had never had a cig. between her lips in all her life.
I'm not saying its ok to smoke but I think there's a big question mark as to whether it kills you.
Good point Phylcat.
My dad died of complications of cancer of the oesophagus, having been a heavy smoker for nearly sixty years, so it would be easy to attribute the cancer to his smoking.
However, he also spent his entire working life in the knitting industry, breathing in all manner of dust and chemical fumes. Who can say whether it was the smoking or the work, a combination of the two or something completely different that caused the cancer.
My dad died of complications of cancer of the oesophagus, having been a heavy smoker for nearly sixty years, so it would be easy to attribute the cancer to his smoking.
However, he also spent his entire working life in the knitting industry, breathing in all manner of dust and chemical fumes. Who can say whether it was the smoking or the work, a combination of the two or something completely different that caused the cancer.