9:49am Tuesday 9th March 2010
By Mhairi Macfarlane
ENVIRONMENTAL health officers are clamping down on businesses flouting the smoking ban.
On national No-Smoking Day tomorrow (Wednesday), the council's officers will be visiting bars, coffee shops and other businesses in the borough and prosecuting any business owners allowing smoking indoors.
The council said some businesses are still allowing people to smoke indoors, despite the no-smoking law being introduced almost three years ago.
Business owners who fail to stop people smoking in smokefree premises could be fined £2,500.
Waltham Forest Council’s cabinet member for community safety and enforcement, Cllr Afzal Akram, said: “The vast majority of businesses in Waltham Forest comply with the law and make alternate provision for people who want to smoke.
“We have done an enormous amount of work to make sure businesses know what the law is and will be taking action against the minority who choose to ignore it."
People smoking in a smoke-free premises or company car could face a £50 fixed penalty notice.
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