RizzyKing

Yeah but by that measure Chris you should ban alcohol as well then as bar staff are routinely exposed to abuse and aggresion due to drunken customers. I am not saying smoking is a good thing i am not suggesting anyone should have to endure it if they don't want to. What i am saying is that it is still legal to purchase tobacco in the UK in fact the government needs the revenue so unless they have the balls to make it illegal and stop taking money from it they have no right to restrict it in the way they did. Also most of the bar staff i know smoke and so i doubt it would have been hard to organise that side of it either.

As far as i am concerned this was an exercise by the government to see how far it could go to restrict personal activity and smoking won't be the last thing they hit. Personally i don't drink alcohol but i routinely have to put up with drunks being abusive and throwing up on my road not to mention the broken glasses that litter the town centre after a weekend if we want we all have a reason to want something restricted\banned doesn't mean it should be or that we should actively pursue that end. I have also loved the "selfish" argument that non smoker's put up as they were thinking purely of themselves when they called for it to be banned pot calling the kettle methinks.