An award-winning senior environmental health officer, who has carried out groundbreaking research on the effects of passive smoking, is calling for a ban on “porch smoking” in the light of a recent local study which indicates that smoke is drifting into pubs from outside.

He says there is no safe limit of exposure to second-hand smoke. (There are safe limits of arsnic, cyniade, and every other toxin. Except SHS. There’s no safe level of that according to these “experts.”) “However it can be useful to assess the effectiveness of smoking policies or bans in terms of population risk thresholds they may exceed. Before the ban, three bars (16 per cent) were below a ‘significant risk standard’ applied in the US for lung cancer over a working lifetime (of 45 years). After the ban, this had increased to 10 (53 per cent).”

Mr Mulcahy says there is a need to examine the possible benefits of introducing “smoker exclusion zones” and ventilation ducts.

“We need to look at the closeness of outdoor smoking shelters to buildings and ensure they are not contributing to tobacco smoke pollution in adjoining buildings.”

(So this vile Nicotine Nazi is not content to force smokers into the weather. Now he wants to follow them outside and continue harassing them.)

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