Attitudes to Smoking in Public Places

MORI survey for National No Smoking Day
  • 1,845 adults aged 15+
  • Interviewed face-to-face, in-house
  • Between 19-22 February 1999
  • 155 Sampling points throughout Great Britain
  • Data have been weighted to reflect the national profile

Q1 Do you smoke, or not?

  Yes No  
32% 68%

Q2 In which of these places, if any, do you find you sometimes breathe in cigarette smoke from other people's cigarettes, cigars etc? Please do not include smoke from your own cigarettes if you smoke.

At airports 23%
At work 25%
At bus/railway stations 37%
In banks/waiting at cashpoints 10%
In cars (yours or other people's) 33%
In hotels 31%
In your home 24%
In the homes of friends 45%
In the homes of relatives, but not your home 34%
In pubs 83%
In cafes/restaurants 61%
Other 2%
None of these 6%
Don't know 1%

Q3 (Smokers Only) If you are were trying to give up smoking, in which of these places, if any, would you like to see smoking forbidden to assist you in your efforts to give up? If you have no intention of trying to give up smoking, please just say so.

At airports 10%
At work 16%
At bus/railway stations 12%
In banks/waiting at cashpoints 9%
In cars (yours or other people's) 10%
In hotels 10%
In your home 13%
In the homes of friends 7%
In the homes of relatives, but not your home 8%
In pubs 22%
In cafes/restaurants 25%
Other 1%
Do not intend trying to give up smoking / n/a 37%
None of these 15%
Don't know 3%

Q4 Do you have asthma, or not?

  Yes No  
9% 90%

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