Liverpool wants to be smoke-free destination
The often-maligned city of Liverpool, which has been chosen as the European capital of culture for 2008, has announced that it wants to become the first smoke-free destination in the UK. According to a report in The Guardian, the city wants to follow in the footsteps of New York and ban lighting up in public places after a survey found that 900 people in the city die because they smoke every year, while 105 more die because of passive smoking. The newspaper reports that a group of health agencies, under the umbrella title Smoke Free Liverpool, want to ban smoking in shops, bars and restaurants, and to encourage businesses to outlaw smoking on the grounds that doing so could help them to increase profits. Christine Owens, of the Roy Castle Lung Foundation, reportedly said: “People in New York said it would lead to a 30% fall in revenue for the hospitality industry, but actually there was a 12% increase in profits.” However, Rob Guttman, owner of the city’s Pan American Club, reportedly described the proposals as “horrendous”.
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