Madam, - The proposed ban of smoking in pubs is likely to reduce the attraction of smoking for young people.
Madam, - The proposed ban of smoking in pubs is likely to reduce the attraction of smoking for young people.
Therefore, in future years my 11- and 14-year-old daughters are less likely to start smoking.
When account is also taken of the impact of passive smoking on bar staff, I have only one feeling for pub owners supporting the campaign of the Vintners Association and the Irish "Hospitality" Industry Alliance - disgust. - Yours, etc.,
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DONAL DALY, St Aidan's Drive, Dublin 14.
Madam, - No smoke without ire? - Yours, etc.,
ARTHUR REYNOLDS, Seapoint Avenue, Blackrock, Co Dublin.