Originally Posted by RizzyKing

Reality is this whole anti-smoking thing at the minute is an attack on a freedom that some citizens choose to have and while i agree smelling of cigarettes is not a nice thing and some people really do hate it (i am a smoker by the way) until the ban i never heard or saw it putting people off going out for a night in the pub or anywhere else.

As for the whole "there was a demand for smoke free pubs before the ban" er no there wasn't maybe in the big cities but not much elsewhere as we had one that tried it in our town he went out of business after six months despite running 5 other successful pubs so you can't use the old excuse of him not knowing what he was doing.

As for smoking in cars of course people shouldn't smoke in cars when kids are in them but i really don't think it is an area the government should be interfering in and if we allow them to interfere on that level we are just asking for trouble in a whole host of other areas.

Apart from anything else this government doesn't have the best track record so even if i were to agree to the principle of them interfering at this level i would want a government with a little more credibility doing it.