[jambutty]

So the anti smoking brigade has finally got their way and smoking is to be banned in all enclosed public spaces although prisons and care homes will be exempt from the ban.

By definition an enclosed public place is a building where the general public can enter either voluntarily or by invitation. The thought occurs that if someone comes into my flat to visit me does that make it a public place? If I give someone a lift in my car does that make it an enclosed public space? Will smoking be banned? It is MY flat and MY car and if a visitor tried to make me stop smoking in their presence then they know where the door is.

In years to come when the incidence of asthma in the young has not decreased they can target the true villains – the internal combustion engine and industry.

This smoking in enclosed public places is the thin end of the “control the public wedge” together with ID cards and the advocates of it will rue the day they forced it through.