Wednesday, June 16, 2010

Save the Pub MPs call for Smoking Ban Relaxation

The newly re-elected All Party Parliamentary Save the Pub Group vice chairman and MP for Northampton South wants the law to be changed to allow smoking in separate well-ventilated rooms.

He will push forward with his campaign in the run up to the three-year re-evaluation of the ban this autumn.

“The way Parliament handled the situation for pubs and clubs was draconian, crude and crass,” said Binley, who is a non-smoking asthmatic.

Binley said he understood the health implications of smoking indoors, but that advanced extraction systems were capable of dealing with second hand smoke.

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