Hewitt predicts total ban on pub smoking
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Ms Hewitt had to face MPs yesterday to defend a decision with which she privately disagreed. She rejected a suggestion by a Tory MP, Mike Penning, that she had been "rolled over'' in Cabinet by her predecessor, John Reid, who opposed an outright ban. "We had a disagreement on the specific issue of pubs that don't serve food, so we did what any sensible organisation would have done, we discussed it," she claimed.
But she added: "It's only a matter of time before there is a complete ban."
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