Can we carry on smoking ourselves silly if the pub doesn prepare food?
It will be up to the proprietor to choose. Those wanting to allow smoking will still have to ban it “in the bar area”. During consultations before the election ministers indicated that this might mean no smoking within a metre of the bar. Now Patricia Hewitt would like to restrict smoking to separate rooms, which bar staff need not enter until the morning after (when the smoke may have cleared). She refers to these zones as “smoking carriages”.
