European Parliament calls for smoking to be banned indoors

SMOKING should be totally banned indoors and in private cars because passive smoking kills, according to a report to the European Parliament.

It is responsible for more than 79,000 deaths a year in the EU and in the hospitality sector alone one worker dies every day from the effects of passive smoking, MEP Avril Doyle pointed out in the report.

Ms Doyle says there is widespread demand to ban smoking with a recent Eurobarometer survey showing 86% of people favour no smoking in the workplace while 84% say it should be banned in any indoor space.