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"Smoking is to be banned outside schools and hospitals in England as part of a
crackdown on one of the UK’s biggest killers and the country’s most common
cause of cancer.
But the government has dropped plans to outlaw smoking outside pubs and
restaurants, prompting health campaigners to complain about “vested interests”
covertly influencing policy.
The health secretary, Wes Streeting, said it was a “sensible package to tackle
what is still one of Britain’s biggest killers … but also to clamp down on the
scourge of use of vaping”.
He said he had listened to the hospitality industry’s concerns about smoking
outside venues. “To be fair to the hospitality industry, they’ve taken a real
battering in recent years – I don’t think it’s in anyone’s interest for us to
worsen that situation,” he said.
“So we listened to what the hospitality industry said and therefore we’re not
proposing to go ahead with an outdoor hospitality ban at this stage.”
The extension of the existing ban on smoking indoors to some outdoor settings
is contained in the delayed tobacco and vapes bill, which will finally be laid
before parliament on Tuesday.
It aims to make the UK the first country in the world to eradicate smoking by
raising the age at which people can buy cigarettes by one year every year until
no one can legally do so."
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