Smokers have rights too

Will Powers. Well may you say then that any person who operates a vehicle, be it car, bike, plane, boat could also be accused of stupidity. Point remains until smoking tobacco is outlawed completely, smokers still have rights and should not be treated like second class citizens. To the comment further down about injecting in public....once again, SMOKING IS LEGAL, heroin use is not. And MikeP, I am more than capable of walking around an object that offends or endangers me....are you not?

@ ScubaSteve - You wrote : "I smoke and I like to smoke. I also know that it causes cancer, I am not stupid."

That is quite the contradiction. Are you trying to suggest that continuing to smoke whilst knowing it causes cancer (and a whole raft of other health problems) is the behavior of someone intelligent?

Smokers have to be ten metres away from the buildings at my works, as the air con sucks the smoke in to the building and you can smell it inside, this has been well proven.

Sorry, that was meant to be : In some more enlightened countries smoking is banned within a certain distance of buildings, typically 15 metres.

"The fact that smokers are now banished to the cold outside is surely enough for your smug satisfaction."

Not really. It means that the rest of us have to walk through the screen of smoke and exhaled bad breath to get inside. It also means that in summer when sitting outside the rest of us are exposed to poison fumes from your addiction to tobacco. In some more enlightened countries smoking is banned within a certain distance of buildings, typically 5 metres. Great idea.

JETHRO instead of slandering other people for what it is they want to do with there lives with comments such as "You are surrounded by morons" basically for being a smoker, maybe instead you should try a bit of constructive critism. The fact that smokers are now banished to the cold outside is surely enough for your smug satisfaction.

Anyone with a bad habit tries to justify why they have no self controll.

Would you like to see people injecting in public as well !!!

I have to agree here, common sense would have seen a smoke room in each pub, with a compulsory extractor fan, instead we have lost loads of our historic pubs.
(And I have never smoked and hate the slightest whiff of it).

The Government succeeded in its aim. More than half the pubs in my area closed down. The rest turned into twee cocktail bars.

I suppose those MPS who still smoke don't have to smoke in pubs. They get discount tobacco and can smoke us all out in their second homes.

I don't mind that we have to go outside now, It was a bit nasty in restaurants. what I don't like is that outdoor heaters generally don't work or aren't switched on and in the summer non smokers give you dirty looks in the pub garden, feel like screaming 'we've been here all year! so you can have fresh air indoors!' I am considerate I blow away and don't sit near children or people with oxygen masks etc.

Surrounded by Morons- Sorry, I missed the r from your, I wouldn't want you thinking that I was like your friend JACKPD.