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Smoking policies in public places

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For ASH (Action on Smoking and Health) and the Health Education Board for Scotland (HEBS), we completed a follow up survey related to smoking policies in public places. In 1999, in order to monitor the impact of proposed new Government initiatives controlling smoking in public places, ASH and HEBS commissioned us to undertake a baseline study, using a telephone survey of 1000 leisure industry businesses across London. The latest contract is a follow up to that survey, using interviews with the same sample to determine the impact of a voluntary charter on restrictions on smoking in public places and assess change over time. Thirty-four percent of Scottish adults smoke, compared with 27% in the UK as a whole and there is higher exposure to the health risks of environmental tobacco smoke (ETS). Cancer is Scotland’s leading cause of death, with one in three cancer deaths caused by smoking.