There is evidence that highest concentrations of second hand smoke are dangerous to a significant % of the population and that most do not want to be in any noticeable level of smoke. Seems fair that a public house should do something but the ban was just vindictive. The ceiling mounted extraction systems were just the job imho..
How are you on today's mooted ban of smoking in cars with young children? Oz already has it. I'd agree too.
There is actually no evidence that second-hand smoke is dangerous...
Surprisingly, after all these years of research and scare stories there is little evidence that primary smoking causes lung cancer either... yes, there is a statistically higher risk of getting lung cancer if you smoke but correlation isn't causation...
As for smoking in cars (outdoors, indoors, at home, at work, on the moon, etc.), it is no fucking business of the gubberment whether you do or not with or without children present....
The risks of smoking are well known to everybody (as are the risk of driving, skydiving, playing rugby, juggling chainsaws, riding a bicycle, swallowing swords, drinking meths, etc.) and it is down to adults to decide if they wish to take those risks (and expose their children to them) or not...
