A smoke free zone with NLP Rapport Archive Health A smoke free zone with NLP Rapport Issue 12 Publication Date June 28th 2008 Authors Caitlin Collins The ban on smoking in public places in the UK came into effect on July 1st 2007 with, according to opinion polls, ‘three quarters of adults expressing their support’. Hefty legislation targets the ‘managers of premises’ rather than smokers themselves; ‘managers’ are threatened with a fine of £2500 for failing to prevent puffers from lighting up – rather like bullying the prefects to make the naughty kids behave. The result of this is that we’re seeing more smoking than ever because now it’s going on outside in the street! As well as harassing business proprietors, the Government is promoting NHS stop-smoking programmes primarily focused on drugs; the pharmaceutical companies have managed to brand their nicotine-replacement products, plus Zyban and Champix... Health To access the rest of this article, you need to use 1 credit ANLP members get complimentary credits that can be used for purchasing from the Rapport archive - a collection of more than a 1000 high quality articles written by some of the leading voices in the field of NLP. Non-members can buy Rapport credits via the ANLP store. JOIN ANLP BUY RAPPORT CREDITS If you have already purchased this article, you can log in to access it
