[jambutty]

The smoking ban isn’t in OPEN public spacespixie but in ENCLOSED public spaces. And that means you cannot object to someone lighting up next to you whilst you both wait for a bus unless it happens to be in an ENCLOSED bus shelter. To have it your way is to pass legislation without due process. Just exactly when were you empowered to pass laws for this country?

In any case, isn’t it the absolute height of hypocrisy to object to cigarette smoke from a bystander whilst waiting at a bus stop on the one hand but say nothing about the bus spewing out filthy and deadly exhaust fumes as it draws up and stops on the other? I hardly need mention the dozens of vehicles that slip past doing exactly the same whilst you wait for the bus to arrive.

Just where is this clean fresh air that you speak of? On the top of mountains perhaps and maybe at the two poles? But down here there is no such thing as fresh clean air. I wonder how many people are aware that the life giving oxygen content of a litre of air is some 3% less today than it was 50 years ago. In the States and Japan they now have oxygen cafes where patrons can have their coffee or whatever and a bottle of oxygen to breathe whilst they drink it.