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• Sly smokers spark more pub inspections  

Plans to scale down smoking inspectors are to be scrapped after new research suggested many pub customers are lighting up during lock-ins.

Health officials had hoped that the ban on smoking in pubs and clubs would become self-policing.

The study on the effectiveness of the ban – introduced in Scotland in March 2006 – was carried out by a team of academics from Stirling, Strathclyde and Central Lancashire universities. Over 18 months, they sent secret observers to eight pubs to check whether drinkers and staff were keeping to the law.

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