The smoking ban – 2 years on
On 1st July 2007 it became illegal to smoke in indoor public places in England including pubs, clubs and workplaces. This was one of the most controversial pieces of legislation for a long time and was widely debated at the time with ferocious opposition to the bill from pro-smoking groups. We’re now two years on from then, so what effect has the ban had in the UK?
The health effects for workers in places where smoking would have been commonplace such as bars and pubs have unsurprisingly been dramatic. Research carried out just 3 months after the ban in October 2007 indicated that employees’ exposure to second hand smoke had dropped by 95%. Before the ban the type of second hand smoke exposure workers in bars would have was the equivalent of smoking 190 cigarettes a year!
This was a great benefit of the ban, but many owners and managers within the hospitality industry experienced a more negative impact of the ban due to fewer customers leading to losses in income. One area which suffered in particular was membership clubs, which is a group that have vigorously fought over the last two years to have the ban relaxed for these kinds of establishments in particular, with the introduction of ventilated smoking rooms, but this is unlikely.
There were sensational statistics about the effect of the ban on people quitting smoking – one statistic said the number of quitters trebled in the nine months after the ban, and another said that 400,000 people chose to quit in the first year of the ban – if this continues into the future the ban could save 40,000 lives. Perhaps this is the reason you have chosen to quit, and if so there’s no better reason – who wants to be isolated from their friends by having to go outside every time you want to have a cigarette? This might be ok in the warm weather we’re having now but I bet it’s not an inviting option in the middle of winter. Smoking has become more of a nuisance now that it is banned in public places, and this can be an encouragement to finally give it up for good. Social smoking can be one of the more difficult aspects to give up, but when you’re next out with friends and you feel like a smoke, think of the conversation you’ll miss out on and the probability that at some point you’ll be getting very wet and cold just to keep up a habit that’s now a bit of a social outcast.
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