That's not a libertarian standpoint.
I can't stand smoking, but I don't think the ban should extend to private members' clubs or pubs that can offer a choice of smoking/non-smoking areas. There should be smoking and non-smoking pubs - no doubt someone will proclaim a human right to drink in every pub. I think choice is what is required.
Oddly, despite all the b@ll@cks talked by the anti-smoking brigade, a lot of bar staff smoke and wouldn't object to working in a smoky environment. Bar work is not exclusive to a handful of locations and so those who don't want to work in smoking pubs could work in non-smoking pubs.
The truth is that the MPs who banned smoking in public places did not ban it in the Palace of Westminster and they can still smoke in their own bars. If it's unhealthy for me it is unhealthy for the bar staff in the Houses of Parliament. I cannot stomach the hypocrisy.
It's like Blair going on about global warming and then jetting to meetings he could observe over the Internet.
When all MPs stop smoking and all bars in the Houses of Parliament are off limits to smokers I'll believe them.
It's like global warming - when the powers that be use public transport and stop flying around the world I'll believe them.
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"I do not wish to form my opinions by thoughtlessly quoting others; I wish others to support their opinions by sensibly quoting me." Paul Wesson (Aardvark) 13th April 2008
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