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Passing of legislation, Private Member’s Bills

Wednesday 20 October 2004 at 11:05 pm | In News | Post Comment

Liverpool city councillors voted last night to promote a Private Member’s Bill that would outlaw smoking along the lines of New York and Dublin.
The council will petition Parliament to pass the Liverpool City Council (Prohibition of Smoking in Places of Work) Bill, which could take at least 18 months.

It is widely expected that there would follow extensive bans on smoking in public places such as pubs and restaurants; the medical evidence seems to be overwhelmingly against the smoker. More than 100 people in Liverpool die each year as a result of inhaling second-hand smoke, the author of this blawg nearly joined them on 13th July as a result of a heart attack caused, inter alia by smoking.