During the Wales Assembly Elections (last year), one of the items on the UKIP manifesto was "the smoking ban to be reversed"
This I believe was the idea of John Whitaker, who thought it was a sure vote winner.
The office was inundated with telephone calls wth people saying they agreed with a lot of UKIP's policy, but would NOT vote for us because of our smoking strategy - it cost us many votes.
It was the same when out leafleting -a vote loser!!!!!!!!