If you are a smoker, or non smoker, the smoking ban is the first step toward the slippery slope of a totalitarian Police state where non of the freedoms we take for granted will be safe.
Today its a smoking ban tommorow what will be next?
No-one would encourage anybody to smoke, in fact I activley discourage any of my family to smoke and always will.
Most of the facts provided by the anti smoking lobby are spurious at best.
In England today we have an aparthied system based on your smoking or no smoking status, if you are a smoker you are regarded as a modern day lepper with threats of disrimination within our health system, and outright societal denigration.
At one time I had respect for the rights of non smokers but I am afraid the goodwill I once had is fast eroding amid the seemingly fascist attitude that exists within its fraternity.
This Government and it cronies have condemned millions of people to a life of total exclusion from friends and places of entertainment, eating houses,and anywhere they might find what maybe the last bit of enjoyment this country had to offer, result : society as a whole loses, as pubs and clubs close.
What country makes people stand, or sit out in the cold, smokers pay the same money for their entertainment as their non smoking chums inside ?
Anybody accepting those conditions should consider a sanity test !
Past Governments have always been quick to take the tax from smokers but have always failed to protect the rights and wishes of the smokers from which it came.
The common sense aproach to all this was simple, smoking and non smoking establishments and let people take their choice.
If you want to see how your MP voted on this issue I will leave a link
This and other Governments should remember that smokers are voters too.
See How MP's voted on the smoking ban
Rob Layton.
2007-12-04 @ 14:10