Well color me surprised! I had no idea the entire United Kingdom had banned smoking in “all enclosed or substantially enclosed areas within the work place and public.” According to www.nosmokinglaw.co.uk, the Scottish ban is already implemented, Wales and Northern Ireland are following suit in April, and England will be joining the rest in summer 2007. There’s information on that site for all of the different regions, because apparently they each have their own rules.

The smoking ban in Washington DC takes effect 2 January 2007 and personally I cannot wait! I wonder if a U.S. site will pop up with information similar to this - there have been complaints from some DC businesses that the smoking ban will send their customers to the suburbs, and the UK site has good ideas for all businesses, but it would be awesome to see a site specifically targeted to DC conerns.

Congratulations to the UK on their smoking ban, I’ll enjoy visiting there even more now!