This smoking ban is just too much

No one forces people to work in a pub. The pubowner decides what happens on his own place. After all he owns it. Guests should not demand rules when they are visitors. Where is the common sense in people?

Easy, all you need is a designated smokers room with extraction, no bar or staff, hey presto, what problem?

The harm is that staff will have to work there, serving people and clearing tables and they will have to breathe in the smoke.

Yes, I can hear what you are thinking. "the staff who are smokers can work there". What about when they are off sick or on holiday? What if they want to stop smoking? What if there are no other smoking staff to switch shifts with?

You cannot make being a smoker a condition of either getting or keeping a job.

I don't smoke and will never smoke, I hate the smell of it, but I dont see any harm whatsoever in letting these smokers have a room to themselves in a pub.

There is no smoking ban. There is only a ban on making other people breathe in your smoke. You can smoke in your home, your garden, your car, you can smoke on the pavement, outside offices, shops and pubs and in the park. Many pubs and restaurants have a garden or courtyard with seating, flowers and space heaters especially for smokers. How is that a "smoking ban"?

Smoking bans have nothing to do with the collective health of a populace. The no-smoke thugs want you to obey. Period. And if you don't? They demand you be fined and/or jailed and/or put out of business, and even your home, until you submit to them.

Like the nazi's in 1930's Germany, they march lockstep behind the drama they feel injected into their lives via fighting for their almighty "Cause," be it morally right or not. Fair play, honesty, logic, and freedom are not a part of their mindset. They entitled to their opinions. Their enforcing their misguided thinking upon others has no place in free societies. www.RepealSmokingBans.com

I hate my country. I hate the people in it. I hate how they think. I hate the Government. I hate what Britain has become: a nasty self-centred island with small minded selfish people. May it fade totally away into obscurity.

The smoking ban was the last straw. This used to be a wonderful free-thinking island. Now it has become the den of fascists.

The do-gooder has taken over completely. It's as if the nation were being run by the Temperance Society.

Well I am going to lose my temper right now. Out damn freaks Out! Leave me and my freedom alone.

I've got nothing against people smoking. Just wish they wouldn't do it near me. Hate breathing in that crap!

OK all pubs should be banned. 8 out of 10 are a health risk. Have you seen their loos? Do they really wash the glasses properly. Do the bar staff wash their hands. Most pubs disgust me. Sick all over pavement outside of them. Yuk! I feel ill whenever I go into one of them.

Most pubs are sad dead joints; they died a long time ago. Who wants to pay £3-50p for a pint of beer, when the loo is Category E? Who wants watered down lemonade? Who wants to stand outside in the cold smoking a cigarette?

The nation is full of fat slobs. They will die young. They occupy space meant for the rest of us. They should be banned from public places. They are far unhealthier than cigarette smokers. They are filling the sewers with their daily swill. Every cream bun should carry a health warning. Chocolate should be banned altogether. Hamburger and chip joints should be shut down. Shun the fatties. Boycott all public eating establishments unless they sell low calorie diet foodstuffs. Smoke out the slobs.

Siobhan, I think the tax paid on ciggies probably covers the cost of the treatment; if not it goes a long way towards it!

It's okay to say it's their choice if they die from it, but what about all the money spent on the NHS treating smoking-related conditions?