Chris

I don't go into smoky environments much these days (usually I have two very young children in tow) but on Saturday we visited the Ideal Homes Show at the SECC in Glasgow, where smoking is permitted in the entire mall area outside the exhibition halls themselves (where there are cafes, toilets, shops etc). We were sat for a while having a coffee while Mrs T gave our wee girl her milk and it was dreadful. The woman at the next table was practically chain smoking and at least one person in each party that came and sat at any of the tables nearby was a smoker.

Smoking is a bigger problem here in Scotland than in England and I am so glad that the government here has decided to just get on and slap a ban on all smoking in public. It comes into force next year and I can't wait. I just don't understand why it is that the regime in Whitehall seems unable to take any similarly decisive action for England.