A BORDON company is hoping to cash in when the government's ban on smoking in public comes into effect next year. Smoke Out has launched an innovative "smoking shelter" which it hopes will keep smokers banished to the garden in good cheer - and pub landlords worried about falling profits in healthy trade. Company founders Marcus Roebuck and Glenn Hassell, both from Bordon, unveiled a prototype at The Holly Bush Inn, in Headley, last Tuesday, after almost a year working on its design and production. Licensees from 42 local pubs, restaurants and hotels were invited along to see the company's solution to the pending blanket ban, scheduled to be introduced during early summer 2007. A representative of the firm said several brewers had already shown an interest in the shelter after it was displayed at an exhibition in London in March. After further positive responses from licensees at The Holly Bush Inn, Smoke Out now aims to sell 100 shelters to pubs, clubs, factories and workshops across the country over the next year. For more information, or to place an order, call Nick Elwin on 01730 264581 or visit the website address http://www.smoke-out.co.uk">www.smoke-out.co.uk.
