Submitted on Thursday 19th March 2020
Rejected on Tuesday 14th April 2020
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: no-action (see below for details)
Temporarily ban shisha (water-pipe) smoking in all licensed commercial premises.
Introduce a new temporary ban for the sale, use and testing of tobacco products including shisha (hookah) in all licensed UK commercial premises such as shisha bars, clubs, restaurants.
The reason for this temporal ban is to suspend the use of tobacco/shisha products which entail groups of customers smoking breathing from one hose pipe and potentially sharing it on. Smoking not just inhibits the human body’s immune system, but this method of pipe sharing can lead to the contamination and spread of the Corona Virus infection; whether somebody is unknowingly the carrier of the virus and could pass it on to others.
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
Since you started your petition, the Government has closed all bars and restaurants.
If you would like shisha pipes to be banned permanently, or for a period once bars reopen, you could start a petition asking for this to happen.
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