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Gib Bogle wrote:

Well, if we ignore the obvious trolling and prejudice, cigarette
smoke makes a lot of people with breathing problems cough very
badly.

I think this is the main issue. Except in very smoky confined spaces,
I'm guessing that the cancer risk from other people's smoke is pretty
minimal, but those particulates can be very troubling for some. Any
smoke is air pollution, regardless of what's being burnt.

It's not just cancer, but that is what the statistics show. Actually,
one of the biggest dangers is to babies, and that is a problem with
the parents smoking at home and in cars rather than in 'public places'.
Unusually, the trolls have got one fact right - the absolute nature
of the ban was entirely due to fanaticism, largely driven by that
unspeakable prime minister of the time.

I found it truly mind-boggling that he pushed through a new crime,
driven entirely by some proven falsehoods in the Murdoch press;
that of making necrophilia a crime, because of the claimed widepread
practice by undertakers. Someone investigated the article and the
journalist admitted that he had invented it from whole cloth, because
he had been told to find a scandal. He also included bestiality, on
the grounds that there was no evidence that it actually occurred,
and therefore needed forbidding so that people were reminded of it.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.