Letters

Tourism and smoking ban

Madam, - I am delighted to learn that, once again, visitor numbers to Ireland have risen (by 17 per cent) for the first six months…

Mon Sept 18 2006 - 01:00

Madam, - I am delighted to learn that, once again, visitor numbers to Ireland have risen (by 17 per cent) for the first six months of this year. Some of your readers will recall the pro-smoking lobby stating vociferously that the workplace smoking ban would be a "thorn in the side" of our tourism industry. Yet again they have been proved wrong. - Yours, etc,

VALERIE E. COGHLAN,

ASH Ireland,

Northumberland Road,

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Dublin 4.