City 目的（とする）s to 禁止（する） public smoking

by ROBIN YAPP, Daily Mail

Liverpool may become the first British city to 禁止（する） smoking in public places, it 現れるd yesterday.

会議 leaders are believed to be keen to give the city a cleaner image before its year as European 資本／首都 of Culture in 2008 when they hope for a 抱擁する influx of tourists.

A （選挙などの）運動をする group called Smoke 解放する／自由な Liverpool, which 含むs leaders of 産業, health bosses and 議員s, is 主要な the 運動 for a 禁止（する）.

It could mean smoking 存在無法者d in the world-famous Anfield and Goodison football grounds 同様に as pubs, restaurants, cafes, nightclubs and shopping centres.

Anyone wanting to light up would have to go outside.

The 選挙運動者s hope to use 存在するing health and safety 規則s to bring in the 禁止（する）.

But the city 会議 could introduce bye-法律s 軍隊ing

商売／仕事s to stop smoking on their 前提s.

If a 禁止（する） goes ahead, Liverpool would be に引き続いて the lead of Dublin and New York, and answering calls from health 専門家s, 含むing the 長，指導者医療の officer Professor Sir Liam Donaldson, for a draconian 厳重取締 to save thousands of lives.

One of the groups in the （選挙などの）運動をする is the Roy 城創立／基礎, 指名するd after the 芸能人 who died of 癌 after years of 成し遂げるing in smoky clubs.

Its 長，指導者 (n)役員／(a)執行力のある, マイク Unger, said: "We 見積（る） that 17 per cent of people working in the 歓待貿易（する） will die of 肺癌.

"You can go to some pubs and 妨げる／法廷，弁護士業s and be surrounded by smoke yet only 25 to 30 per cent of people 現実に smoke.

"非，不，無-smokers have a 権利 to go out and not have their health put at 危険."

A 熟考する／考慮する（売買）手数料，委託（する）／委員会／権限d by Liverpool City 会議 showed some 900 people die in the city each year as a result of smoking - 同等（の） to one in every 500 of its 全住民.

Jon Dawson, the 都市の顧問 behind the 報告（する）／憶測, 設立する that another 105 peop le a year die as a result of passive smoking.

He said that smoking costs Liverpool ￡28.5million a year in lost 生産性 and ￡3.4million in absenteeism 予定 to illness.

全国的な, smoking-関係のある illnesses are 非難するd for 120,000 deaths a year.

Mr Dawson said: "We 設立する about 80 per cent public support for 禁止（する）s in most public places, although it was about 50 per cent for pubs."

The 会議 has already banned its 20,000 従業員s from smoking at work.

But Simon Clark, 長，指導者 (n)役員／(a)執行力のある of the smokers' 権利s group FOREST, （人命などを）奪う，主張するd the 会議 did not have the 力／強力にする to 禁止（する） public smoking.

He said: "This is the 肉親，親類d of thing introduced by a small 禁止（する）d of obsessive anti-smokers.

"Unfortunately they are supported by 議員s and health professionals who, to be honest, have nothing better to do."

A 決定／判定勝ち（する） is 推定する／予想するd in the first week of February.