LOL...........................
Lets all sit around and watch the government goose-step down Whitehall, and take away even more of our personal freedoms.
Ok, I'm a smoker, and at the moment I have no intention of giving up. If I'm in a public area and smoking is allowed, I'll bloody well smoke. On the other hand if I'm in a confined or private area, and there is a non-smoker about I'll ask if I can smoke (even in my own car). When I'm at home, or in someone elses home I dont smoke inside. My usual haunt if I'm having a smoke is the garage, but anywhere outside is good. But it's my choice to smoke, and yes I am well aware of the health issues, so I dont need a lecture about it. When I'm ready to stop I will.
It's fummy to see all the complaints about the health issues of smoking, and how these will be sorted by banning smoking in public. Will they b0ll0ck$, how much time each week do you non-smokers sit in a bar full of smokers? Now compare that to the amount of time you spend in any urban area with vehicular traffic. What do you think will do you more harm, the passive smoke in the bar, or the tons of fumes pumped out by all those internal combustion engines every day. Just as an example, there is a pollutant blown out of the exhausts of every desiel engine called a p10, its one of the most carcinogenic substances ever discovered, so enjoy you're ride to work tomorrow enduring all those p10's.
I vaguely remember the report that was produced about 5 years ago, that gave a comparison asto the amount of tax from cigarette duty. I turned out that the duty paid was the equivilent to 25% of the NHS budget, we are talkin BILLIONS and prolly TENS of BILLIONS in tax. So forget a ban, the only way the government could get that money back would be a tax rise of about 4% for everyone. LOL