By: Jeremy Laurance, Health Editor, The Independent
Monday, 30 June 2008
The nationwide smoking ban has triggered the biggest fall in smoking ever seen in England, a report says.
Smoking was outlawed in all enclosed public spaces in England, including pubs and restaurants, on 1 July 2007 after a prolonged political battle that split the Government and inflamed critics of Britain as a nanny state.
But longer term opposition to the ban never materialised: more than three out of four people support the law, and compliance has been virtually 100 per cent.
