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Smoking at West Swindon Centre o ffends shoppers Give life through a
Prospect box
Toothill resident Ted Spalding wants smoking banned inside the West Swindon Centre, like it is in the
Designer Outlet Village and the Brunel Shopping Centre. Thousands of houses in Swindon
Mr Spalding says he has regu- and staff there is no smoking in the will have collecting boxes for the
larly seen people smoking around store and the restaurant and we Prospect Hospice in them, and
provisions in Asda and cigarette have a no smoking sign at the lot- many will be gathering dust.
butts on the floor. tery ticket booth. Boxescoordi-
And although Asda's restaurant "Staff can only smoke in a desig- nator Gillian
is designated a no-smoking area, nated room which is fitted with a Richardson is
he believes the design of the build- powerful air conditioning system." making an ap-
ing means that cigarette smoke Asda also controls the mall at peal for them to
wafts upward from the shopping the West Swindon Centre. Naomi bebroughtback
floor below. Duggan at company headquarters into use.
He worries that children left to in Leeds said smoking was not " Ever y
play whilst their parents shop are perceived as a problem and there penny counts,"
being exposed to passive smok- had been no complaints. says Gillian. s^•°
ing. As an asthmatic himself, he "The enforcement of a smoking "The boxes are
was particularly concerned to see His criticism is joined by West ban in the mall would be difficult essential to
a young child in the Playbus area Swindon resident Mike Taylor who and we also cater for many cus- Prospect, which has to find eighty
having to use an inhaler. finds it offensive to walk into the tomers who smoke. There are no per cent of its £1.8 million running
"Surely people can do without shopping centre through a veil of plans for a policy change but we costs from voluntary sources. In
cigarettes for as long as it takes cigarette smoke. "I would like to always listen to our customers and 1998 the boxes raised £105,000."
them to do the shopping," he said. know if the question of the health would welcome their views on this New boxes can be obtained at
"What I'd like to see is 'No Smok- of visiting children and the staff matter." any of Swindon's five Prospect
ing' signs on all the entrances to from Asda and the other shops has What do you think? Let The Link charity shops or by calling Gillian
the centre, with reminders on the ever been considered. Other Swin- know. Address on page 3. on 815142.
Playbus and perhaps on the Asda don shopping areas are non smok-
enquiry desk." ing, why not West Swindon?"
Mr Spalding says he has been in Asda Swindon spokeswoman
touch with Asda, both locally and Bev Tyler said that there was a O(I(S7E CHIROPODIST
via their head office, but so far, no strict no smoking policy in-store.
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