A poll for the British Broadcasting Corp. released Sunday found that more than 20 percent of Scottish smokers planned to ignore the ban. The poll found that smokers in their teens and early 20s were most likely to break the law and that men were more likely to break the law than women.

At nightclubs, pubs and restaurants across Scotland on Saturday night, thousands of smokers puffed on their final cigarettes there.

An Aberdeen pub held a tobacco "wake," a restaurant near Glasgow staged a smoking "Last Supper," and a pub in Clydebank threw a "smoking party" for charity.

Scotland became the first place in Britain to ban smoking in public places. Businesses that fail to take steps to prevent smoking on their premises face 200-pound (US$350;