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Smoking ban 'improving' Scottish healthDate: 10/09/2007 09:16:48
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After studies into nine hospitals north of the border, the smoking ban in Scotland is claimed to have had a positive effect on health.
Figures from the Scottish hospitals showed that the ban had brought a 17 per cent yearly drop in admissions for heart attacks, with experts even claiming that the air quality in pubs was now as good as outside.
Scotland was the first part of the UK to see the smoking ban implemented in March 2006, with Wales, Northern Ireland and then England following in 2007.
A key reason for implementation of the ban was to cut down on the passive smoking inflicted by smokers on others in public spaces. Second-hand smoke exposure is now claimed by the study to be 40 per cent down since the ban.
Meanwhile, despite the success shown by the study, opponents of the ban all across the UK continue to seek its withdrawal in favour of less extreme measures.
Among these are publicans, who in Scotland and England have claimed a drop in profits as a result of the ban discouraging customers.
Wetherspoons, owner of 670 pubs in UK cities, claimed to be suffering direct consequences of the smoking ban after sales across the chain fell from 5.3 per cent growth in July to 1.1 per cent growth in August.
"Given the smoking bans and our experience in Scotland, our outlook for like-for-like sales for the 2008 financial year remains cautious," said Tim Martin, chairman of Wetherspoons.
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