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Jacqui Smith says Labour hopes to ‘make it much more likely’ that smokers will want to give up

Esther McVey used poem about complicity with the Nazis to criticise Labour’s proposals about smoking in beer gardens

Smoking will be banned in pub gardens, and outside football stadiums, restaurants and hospitals under new government plans

It is a charge commonly directed at left-of-centre parties that they want to make everything one of three things: free, illegal or mandatory. But unlike Homer Simpson, the UK government does not intend to stand here and watch you smoke every one of those cigarettes to teach you a lesson.

Reports Labour looking to ban smoking in some outdoor spaces could spell last orders for Reform UK leader

British government considers stricter anti-smoking measures, including potential ban on outdoor smoking, to reduce healthcare costs and smoking-related ill...

JOHN Swinney has said Scotland will “of course consider” replicating any UK Government ban on smoking in places such as beer gardens and outdoor…

NHS 'heartened' by possible beer garden smoking ban while pubs say it will 'increase isolation' 

There aren’t that many places left where a smoker can smoke, but outside a pub is one of them. Fewer people than before congregate in a pub garden for a companionable cigarette, according to one friend who keeps a close eye on the pub scene. But for those who do,…