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Intro: A BUSINESSMAN has claimed that actors who smoked cigarettes on stage during a theatre play in Barnstaple might have sent out potentially worrying "subliminal messages" to children in the audience.
Financial advisor Philip Milton, from Georgeham, said his family thoroughly enjoyed watching Spider's Web -- which was written by Agatha Christie in 1953 -- at the Queen's Theatre last week.
"It was an excellent production and it was good to see the theatre full on a Friday night, especially in view of the weather," he said.
But he said the smoking by actors on stage during the atmospheric murder mystery sent out "subliminal messages" to children in the audience, not to mention an "unpleasant smell", and the play would not have suffered if no tobacco had been burnt in the theatre that night.
He said the ban on smoking in enclosed public spaces should now be extended to include theatre stages. "I'm not trying to be a party pooper," he was keen to add.
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