Free nicotine patches to keep customers
In November in South Australia smoking was prohibited in all indoor public places. This move hits many businesses. Even some are in desperation looking for means of subsistence others try to resist to new tougher laws.
For example in SA, The Australian Hotels Association decided to offer free nicotine patches to smoking residents.
A list of hotels makes a kind of coalition helping tobacco consumers to quit and resist to the harsher ordinance in SA offering a kind of first-aid assistance.
30 Adelaide hotels in the Australian Leisure and Hospitality Group offer nicotine patches and ’quit smoking’ brochures to those who decided to quit, Ian Horne, Hotels Association manager said.
Mr Horne said that this initiative seems to be a resolution for Hotels from the South Carolina since ban took effect.
“The commercial reality is for that proportion of our population who choose to smoke and have difficulty giving up smoking, here’s an alternative for them and I would’ve thought that that should be commended rather than condemned,” he said.
This seems to be a good resolution, at least for those who try to quit.
