Passive smoking: proposed UK legislation

Harrow MP Gareth Thomas has put forward a bill to ban smoking in premises where food is served. This would include the bar area of restaurants. Figures from that ASH report last week (see my comments about it) are rolled out without criticism in the BBC report about the bill. The risks from passive smoking are small if they exist at all. This legislation is unnecessary.

And if it succeeds, and it stops me from having a burger with my pint in Wetherspoons, there will be trouble.

MPs vote on restaurant smoking ban, BBC News, 14 April 2003