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Anti-smoking ban campaigners head to Downing
Street
Published 16th November, 2004.
Story from The Publican: http://www.thepublican.com/cgi-bin/item.cgi?id=15461&d=11&h=24&f=23&dateformat=%25o-%25B-%25Y
Campaigners opposing a smoking ban in pubs have taken a petition containing
thousands of names to 10 Downing Street.
The Freedom2Choose campaign, started by Rod Bullough, managing director
of Blackpool-based tobacco vending machine supplier Duckworth, has amassed
14,000 signatures in only two weeks.
Mr Bullough took the petition to Downing Street accompanied by Paul Davies,
chairman of the Pyramid Pub Management Company, and London restaurateur
Ranald McDonald.
“We hope this will have an impact,” said Mr Bullough. “We’re
not against change and understand that it is coming but we want the government
to consider a phased method and not a total ban.”
