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PUB SHELTERS OFFER A HAVEN FOR SMOKERS LEFT IN COLD
The quest for legal and comfortable smoking zones has seen a huge
increase in orders for awning companies. Tony Reynolds, who runs
Shrewsbury-based Shading By Design, said that orders for surveys
and quotes were up '1,000 per cent' on last year. 'In 2006 we
carried out around 300 surveys,' he added. 'We've done that many
in the first six weeks of this year.'
Joanne Maile, whose Essex-based company, Parasolar, makes giant
heated umbrellas for leisure chains, including the upmarket
Corney & Barrow wine bars, said: 'It was a quiet January, but
now we are very, very busy producing surveys and quotes.'
At around ¸3,500 for a four square metres awning complete with
heating system, publicans believe that products such as
Parasolar's will more than recoup their investment once they
have to put up prominent signs telling customers that it is
against the law to smoke on their premises.
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