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On the Sun report that smoking could be banned in pub gardens, outdoor restaurants, outside hospitals and at sports grounds in the UK under tighter restrictions being considered by ministers, according to leaked documents, here is some more reaction:
The Reform UK leader, Nigel Farage, told the Sun: “It’ll be the end of pubs.”
There’s a difference between smoking outside and walking in a forest and smoking outside where there are large groups of people, particularly children, concentrated, like restaurants, like pub gardens, like football matches.”
I’m obviously in favour of measures that help abolish smoking, we have seen from the previous government and from this current government, and indeed from wider society, this strong commitment to move towards abolishing smoking, it is absolutely the health challenge of our time.
It’s the leading cause of preventable illness in the UK. So, we are heartened to see that progress is being made and that the intention is moving forward to really address one of Britain’s main drivers of health inequalities.”
Ultimately, all of these steps are steps in the same journey, which is towards a smoke-free future for Britain, reducing those health inequalities, reducing the huge problems that are caused to the individual and to society from smoking.
So, it’s not surprising but in this journey there will be different types of decisions, and there will be hard decisions that need to be made.
