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I don't want to get into an argument about the rights and wrongs of smoking, we have all been there and done that, at considerable length in other posts.

I really couldn't care less about the health of non-smokers who choose to work in premises where smoking takes place. How stupid is that? If they are that concerned over the consequences of sois-dissant passive smoking I connot easily imagine why any sane rational person would wish to put themselves at such risk? And as for poisoning babies with cigarette smoke - there are some who might look on that as something of a public service.

The thing that really concerns me about this is the gradual whittling away of the freedoms that were won, often at great cost, by previous generations, often for the most trivial and spurious of reasons by successive governments who are desperate to be seen to be doing something - anything to justify the enormous amounts of our money that they administer on our behalf.

I am greatly concerned that our government appears unwilling to regard any of us as having suffient maturity and independence of mind to be able to succesfully navigate the daily hazards of life without their regulating every nanosecond of of our experience of it.

If I have one message to give to the Honorable Members of Parliament it is this; keep your sticky noses out of things that need not concern you, pay the bills and shut the F**k up!