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Thu 08 Aug 2003Over half find smoking ban excessive, says surveyMore than half of those questioned for a new survey on the proposal to introduce an outright ban on smoking in pubs, hotels and restaurants from January said they felt a total smoking ban would be excessive.The study, conducted by Lansdowne Market Research for the Irish Cigarette Machine Operators Association (ICMOA), found that 54 per cent of a random sample of 1,200 people over the age of 18 felt the ban was excessive.