[clarie]

I am all for a ban on smoking in public places - indoors ones that is. I find it an awful smell, and it is obviously a risk to my health (passive smoking). It might well be enjoyable to have a pint and a fag (and as an ex-smoker who has converted I do know) but that enjoyment can hardly be weighed against the repulsive smells and high risks to those around you (not to mention you yourself although obviously if you want to take that risk its up to you). If people want to smoke they should go outside, and I don't see why that is such a difficult concept to grasp. Non-smoking areas don't work, the smoke still travels. In this day and age we know enough about the risks of smoking to the health for there to be crackdowns on smoking in public places. I hate coming home stinking of smoke and I hate fag ends all over the place. Just this morning I saw a woman sitting outside her house smoking, only to then chuck then butt onto the pavement rather than on her property.


Disgrace.