Justification for ban vanishes in a puff of smoke

THE recent report from the office of Health and Safety on injury and illness in the workplace will make interesting reading for smokers.

The report was based on a survey carried out during December 2002 to February 2003 (before the smoking ban) by the Central Statistics Office (CSO) as part of the quarterly national household survey.

Respondents were asked whether they had suffered an illness that the respondent believed was caused or made worse by their work in the past 12 months.