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Smoking to be BANNED in pub gardens & in kids' parks leaked gov plans reveal

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Secret Whitehall papers seen by The Sun show ministers plotting to drastically extend indoor smoking ban to beer gardens and outside football stadiums.

Lighting up will be stubbed out at outdoor restaurants, open-air spaces at clubs, and pavements next to both.

It will also apply outside universities, hospitals, sports grounds, kids’ play areas and small parks.

Shisha bars are expected to fall foul of the new rules, but restrictions will not cover private homes.

Anything that helps create a world that protects children and young people from the harms of smoking is a no-brainer to me.

I'm old enough to remember nights out before the smoking ban, when it was normal to get home stinking of smoke and with your clothes ruined by fag burns.

Maybe in ten years the idea of smoking in public will be just that — a horrible memory.

Younger generations will thank us..

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