Publicans propose 50% alternative to blanket smoking ban

Owner-managed pubs with five employees or less should be exempt from the Government's proposed no-smoking ban, the Licensed Vintners' Association (LVA) and the Vintners' Federation of Ireland (VFI) claimed today.

The lobby groups which represent almost 7,000 publicans in Ireland made the proposal at the launch of what it views as alternatives to a blanket no-smoking ban.