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Three cheers for smokefree England!
2nd Jul 2007
At long last, the law banning smoking in enclosed public places has come into force in England, bringing us into line with other parts of the UK. Yesterday - the first day of the ban - I went to The Cock pub in central London, an occasional post-church haunt of mine on a Sunday lunchtime. And lo! where once there had been clouds of disgusting cigarette smoke, there was instead a sticker on the door warning patrons that It Is Illegal To Smoke On These Premises, and inside ... well, for starters I could see across the room unimpeded, which has to be an improvement, and of course I didn't walk out stinking of smoke.
When it came to it, I didn't stay inside the pub for long, because one of my friends still smokes and wanted to sit outside (for once, it wasn't raining). It's actually good planning by someone in government that the ban has come into force during what passes for summer in this country, so we have a few months in which to sit outside while the smokers become accustomed to not being able to go inside and light up. Then it'll get colder and wetter (if that's possible), and they'll have to choose between socialising and smoking....but I'm hoping that by then many of them will have kicked the habit...
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