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UK pub chain to ban smoking by May
Monday, 24 January 2005 16:33One of Britain's biggest pubs groups, Wetherspoons, is to ban smoking in all its outlets by May 2006.
The company, which owns 650 pubs, said that 60 of those will become completely smoke-free from May of this year.
The firm, which has pioneered non-smoking areas in its bars and lounges, said it wanted to ban smoking two years ahead of British government legislation.
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Chairman Tim Martin attacked the government's proposals, claiming that some pubs will still allow smoking if they do not sell food.
