Pub garden smoking ban is not backed by majority of Brits, fresh poll reveals
Date: 2024-10-21
A PUB garden smoking ban would not be backed by a majority of Brits, a fresh poll has revealed.
The survey of 2,020 adults by Yonder found that 53 per cent believed punters should be allowed to spark up outside boozers.
A pub garden smoking ban would not be backed by a majority of Brits, a fresh poll has revealed[/caption]
It narrowly edges the 47 per cent opposed to the habit when excluding “don’t knowsâ€.
Simon Clark, director of the pro-smoking group Forest that commissioned the poll, said Labour has “no mandate†to impose the draconian curbs.
He fumed: “It wasn’t in the Labour Party manifesto and the public only found out about it after the plan was leaked to a national newspaper.
“Banning smoking in beer gardens would be hugely damaging to Britain’s pubs, many of which are struggling already with 50 pubs closing every month in England and Wales in the first half of this year.â€