The Medway Handyman wrote:
BIG SNIP

It would be very simple to allow choice & apply legislation to enforce it.

My beef is that the current blanket ban doesn't allow any choice and the
alleged health scares have been deliberately used to support a campaign to
demonise & punish smokers without any scientific basis.

This thread is reminding me of the days of smoking on trains - when I
smoked and they allowed it! You would frequently see a group of people
in the smoking compartments only one of whom was a smoker. As the
proportion of smokers and the amount of smoking capacity reduced, you
ended up with the situation in which smokers could not find anywhere to
smoke as the seats were filled with non-smokers. I believe that a
similar effect occurred in pubs.

--
Rod