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How do the workplace no smoking laws affect TV studios and film sets, where smoking is part of the narrative?

Taken to one extreme, if a non-smoking person (like Roy Castle) became ill with a smoking-related illness after working exclusively on smokey film sets, would that force a change in the law.

Or, conversely, could you set up a webcam in a 1970s-styled office with the aim of producing a performance art piece (if a runner can be performance art, why not the day-to-day runnings of an office) and thus allow smoking on the same grounds as a film set?

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Asked in smoking, filming, film asked on: 07/01/2008 04:06pm

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46 minutes after the question was opened (07/01/2008 04:52pm)

Actors are exempt from the smoking ban in England if smoking on stage or in front of the cameras is key to their performance and integral to the plot.

See this link for a case where it wasn’t
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/t heatre/article-23401913-details /Unholy%20row%20as... copy

This is not the case in Scotland, where there is no exception. See this link
http://devilskitchen.me.uk/2006 /08/shouting-fire-in-crowded-th eatre.html copy

This link has some interesting sidebars
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_n ews/magazine/6960076.stm copy

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6 hours after the question was opened (07/01/2008 09:14pm)

Alternatively they could use one of these :-
http://www.iwantoneofthose.com/ gamucci-micro-electronic-cigare tte/index.html copy

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25 hours after the question was opened (07/02/2008 04:56pm)

Smoking in films and TV had died out. Much like an unpuffed ciggie

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1093 View profile Send message Hiheels Rank: Albert Einstein: Hiheels

Does it help in the slightest if I say that the character of Max in Eastenders was smoking outside last night?
In other words do they have to film outdoors only, if one is smokin' a fag.

76 View profile Send message duffield1 Rank: Albert Einstein^2: duffield1

Don't think so - Liz MacDonald was smoking in the bar that her and Vernon were thinking of taking over. It wasn't open to the public, but even so...

14489 View profile Send message rainchild Rank: Immanuel Kant: rainchild

They're trying to ban smoking in films.