Jump to full article: B&W NewsReal, 2003-09-03
Intro: The Fianna Fil chairman of the Western Health Board and the nurses' representative on the board have spoken out publicly against the controversial proposed smoking ban.
A third health board member has said he feels "sorry for publicans" who would be expected to implement the ban.
The board chairman, Cllr Val Hanley, a former mayor of Galway and a publican, said at a health board meeting that he had met the Minister for Health, Mr Martin, and proposed having no smoking at the bar counter or a no-smoking section in pubs. . . .
Nurse Johanna Downes, of St Pius's Ward in University College Hospital, Galway, said she too was against the proposed national smoking ban.
"I don't agree with a total ban on smoking. Cigarettes are not a banned substance and people going to bars are adults, or at least they should be.
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