Smoking Outside Pubs, Cafes Etc.

[Apc2604]

Just interested in who would agree with this amendment.

https://www.google.com/search?q=smoking+outside+ban&oq=smoking+outside+ban&aqs=chrome..69i57j0l3j69i60.10469j0j4&client=tablet-android-samsung&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8

[douglas9401]

These will be the same "English councils" empowered to lockdown by the Honey Monster.

Stalin would be honoured.

[ToraToraTora]

DD"The indirect costs are nebulous and unquantifiable; for example the costs of people taking smoking breaks, or the costs to clean up after smokers...even though street cleaners would be cleaning anyway.
So, as I say, happy to be proved wrong, but I doubt I will be. " - not in your eyes because you just ignore the figures. Just one example 5% of fires are caused by smoking but hey ho no point in me trying to convince you if you have already covered your ears.

[ToraToraTora]

DD 18:44 no need, those figures are well known, I'm talking about the vast indirect costs that smokers ignore.

[Deskdiary]

Nice try Tora, but ultimately a fail - you're plucking figures out of the air.

You said the figures in the article I linked to are well known, so where did you get £25bn from? I can't find anything that suggests anything like that number.

This report https://iea.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Smoking-and-the-Public-Purse.pdf suggests there's a net benefit of almost £15bn.

[derek-33]

looks like you will be able to smoke outside bars and cafes after all.
i'm not a smoker but im glad this ban will not happen ,too many regulations controlling us for good and bad, a nanny state..