Public Health: Cafe owner fined over breaches of smoke-free laws
THE owner of a Middlesbrough café has been ordered to pay more than £1,000 in fines and costs after breaching smoke-free laws. (Photos on Flickr)
THE owner of a Middlesbrough café has been ordered to pay more than £1,000 in fines and costs after breaching smoke-free laws. (Photos on Flickr)
Luton Borough Council is reminding businesses to ensure smoking regulations are adhered to after successfully prosecuting an employee of Alpha Taxi for breaching the law.
Amrud Gulam and Imran Khan of La Sheesh at 15 Windsor Street in Luton were found guilty by Luton Magistrates Court on 6 February for failing to prevent smoking in a smoke free place and failing to display an A5 sign at the entrance of the premises.
Chesterfield Borough Council successfully concluded a prosecution at North East Derbyshire and Dales Magistrates’ Court on 8th February.
Over time regulators have prohibited smoking inside public spaces, increased the minimum age for tobacco sales, placed bans on tobacco advertising, imposed mandatory health warnings on packaging and, most recently, prohibited the sale of tobacco products from vending machines. Such measures have been imposed through a gradual introduction of health protection regulation. (By Michael Eade of ENcentre)