Publican hopes he loses smoking injunction case

A PUBLICAN slapped with an injunction stopping customers lighting up outside his premises says he hopes he loses his court case this week to prove the smoking ban is unworkable.

Tom Magher was stunned to find his pub the subject of a temporary order preventing smokers gathering on the path outside his premises on the grounds that they were causing a nuisance.

While he will go to court on Wednesday to try to have the order lifted, he says it would be better if he was turned down as he believes the Government would then be forced into a smoke-ban U-turn.