Pubs 'healthier' after smoke ban
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The vast majority of bar staff say their workplaces are healthier since the smoking ban, a poll finds.
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Smoking will be banned on boats and ships in British waters, the government has said in new proposals.
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British ministers are reportedly considering enacting a nationwide ban on smoking in all restaurants and taverns serving food, the BBC reported Monday.
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LONDON, England -- England could become the latest country to ban smoking in public places, including restaurants and most pubs and bars, under a government proposal.
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Non-smokers reveled. Some smokers grumbled. But others pondered kicking the habit as France's smoking ban went into effect Tuesday with the start of the new year. Owners of bars, restaurants, nightclubs and cafes, where smoking is now prohibited, worried it would be bad for business.
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England slammed the door on smoking in  bars, workplaces and public buildings on Sunday in what  campaigners hail as the biggest boost to public health since  the creation of the National Health Service in 1948.
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As England prepares to ban smoking in public places the BBC's James Helm finds out how a ban has affected Irish pubs.
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Smoking was banned from Sunday in all public buildings in England, including pubs, movie theaters, shopping malls &#151; and even Buckingham Palace.
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LONDON Smoking will be banned in most public places in England, including restaurants and any pub or bar that serves food, the government announced Tuesday.
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Nearly seven out of 10 Britons want to  see smoking banned in restaurants, pubs and offices, according  to a poll published on Tuesday.
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The British government is to announce plans to ban smoking in nearly all pubs, cafes and restaurants in England when it unveils a long-awaited policy paper on public health on Tuesday, the BBC reported.
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A ban on smoking in virtually all enclosed public places has come into force throughout England.
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The British government said Tuesday it would seek a ban on smoking in most public places, including restaurants and any pub or bar that serves food.
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New Zealanders breathed a little  more easily on Friday, although smokers grumbled, as it became  the third country in the world to ban smoking in bars and  restaurants.
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Smoking in public places and places of work is now banned in all of Britain with England&#39;s entrance into an ever-expanding club of nations that bar the habit.
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Pubs group JD Wetherspoon says it is the "right time" to ban smoking in all of its pubs and bars from May 2006.
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Brewer and pub firm Greene King says preparations for the smoking ban in England have left it in "good stead".