I believe that a report that was issued in December showed that the effect of the Scottish smoking ban has been to reduce takings by 14% and, even more interestingly, the number of punters by 12%.
I seriously doubt that compared, for instance, to the cancers caused by car exhaust fumes, the passive smoking effect is negligible. It is worth pondering on the fact that the tetra-ethyl lead, used as an anti-bumping agent in leaded petrol, was replaced with benzene compounds. Benzene is a Class 1 carcinogen, cancer-causing by skin contact.
It's also worth remembering that, whilst ventilation is better and per capita smoking is down, per capita lung cancer is on the increase.
Just sayin', is all...
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