From 1st July smoking will be banned from all enclosed public and work
places in England. It already applies to other parts of the UK.
Prisoners will be able to choose whether to have a smoking or a non-smoking cell inside the prison, but the prison warders will have to go outside if they want to smoke. The prison is the prisoners' home, so not a public or work place, but it's the warders work place.
Don't know what the rules are for residential homes for the elderly - inmates of prisons are covered by the Europen Human Rights legislation when it comes to the way they are fed and treated, but people in residential homes aren't. But that's probably got nothing to do with whether or not they will be able to smoke in a home.
Jean in Poole, Dorset.
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