Second Thoughts on Smoking
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LAST week Manchester City Council had second thoughts and decided to allow Cllr. A. Logan, chairman of the transport committee, to withdraw his committee's ban on top-deck smoking which was to have been enforced from June 1. The committee faced a head-on clash with conductors and drivers in getting the ban enforced.
Clan Logan had explained that notices of the ban for buses "did not effect what
they were intended to effect ". They would have read: "In the interests of health, and for the greater comfort of others, passengers are required to refrain from smoking ". The Town Clerk, Sir Philip Dingle, had advised that this was not legally possible and the notices should have read: "Smoking Prohibited ", or "Smoking Not Allowed ". Cllr. Logan added that the committee might now arrange for notices to be erected on buses, for the time being, "requesting passengers not to smoke ".
The decision to ban smoking still remains, although it is thought unlike y that any action could now be taken unlit August