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Solicitors not having to deal with smoking ban breaches
01/08/2007
It seems that Northern Ireland's smokers have by and large accepted the smoking ban, with the majority of businesses being compliant with the new laws.
In the three months that the ban has been in place, Belfast City Council has praised both businesses and smokers for their "widespread acceptance" of the new laws, adding that there had been nearly a 99 per cent rate of compliance since the ban started.
The council visited 5,000 businesses in Belfast and only found ten firms to be in breach of the legislation by not displaying the required non-smoking signs.
Councillor Cathal Mullaghan, chairman of the Health and Environmental Services Committee, said: "The high level of compliance is an endorsement of the work which the council put into preparing businesses for the introduction of the new legislation on April 30th.
"The council spent more than a year preparing for the law coming in, and put a lot of time and effort into advising and helping businesses to get ready for it.
"However, the implementation of the legislation could not have been such a success without the help of the business community in making it work - and the acceptance of the change by smokers themselves."
Meanwhile solicitors in Northern Ireland may see fewer clients claiming smoking related illnesses caused by a smoky workplace - as Mr Mullaghan said, the legislation was designed to " protect the health of workers and the public in previously smoke-filled environments".
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In the three months that the ban has been in place, Belfast City Council has praised both businesses and smokers for their "widespread acceptance" of the new laws, adding that there had been nearly a 99 per cent rate of compliance since the ban started.
The council visited 5,000 businesses in Belfast and only found ten firms to be in breach of the legislation by not displaying the required non-smoking signs.
Councillor Cathal Mullaghan, chairman of the Health and Environmental Services Committee, said: "The high level of compliance is an endorsement of the work which the council put into preparing businesses for the introduction of the new legislation on April 30th.
"The council spent more than a year preparing for the law coming in, and put a lot of time and effort into advising and helping businesses to get ready for it.
"However, the implementation of the legislation could not have been such a success without the help of the business community in making it work - and the acceptance of the change by smokers themselves."
Meanwhile solicitors in Northern Ireland may see fewer clients claiming smoking related illnesses caused by a smoky workplace - as Mr Mullaghan said, the legislation was designed to " protect the health of workers and the public in previously smoke-filled environments".
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