A study by the American Yale University on the impact of smoking bans in the US and Scotland has found they reduced alcohol consumption amongst smokers. In Scotland, 525 smokers were studied before and after the ban and compared with a control group south of the border. It found that moderate drinking smokers in Scotland reduced their alcohol consumption by four drinks a week whilst heavy drinking smokers drank on average six fewer drinks in the pub per week. Sherry McKee, of Yale University, said:
Meanwhile in England and Wales, whilst the smoking ban has increased the number of people quitting smoking, research shows it has further reduced business for the declining on-trade. Questions are therefore being raised about whether the ban has contributed to increased home consumption as off-sales rise and supermarkets continue to use alcohol as a significant loss-leader. Other reports indicate that the smoking ban has caused crime and disorder problems outside premises.
For more on the Yale University research see Scotland on Sunday report.
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What? If vilifying large groups of society for no reason, ostracising them to the cold climate, bombarding them with nightmarish obscene imagery of cancerous lungs and diseases while already threatening them with death, illness and deformed babies and, AND charging those people more and more money for the privilege of doing that sounds, like a heap of help. Sounds like an invasion of our civil liberties to live, without judgment. Considering the smoking masses make up 1.1 billion of us or 17% of the worlds population. I think that makes a pretty strong, probably not healthy, minority.
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