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The word that keeps cropping up is choice, the pro smokers are arguing that they should be allowed the choice of smoking or not, big brother should not lay down the law.
What about non smokers? we don't have the choice whether we have to cough and hack with the rest or stink like an ashtray! Smoking is a practice that kills both the smoker and non smoker so how can a freedom of choice argument be used?
I reckon the banning in enclosed spaces is the right way to do it, as banning it totally would be nonsensical when c****** is being downgraded and alcohol is still legal.

You go out with a group of friends enjoying a chat, every so often two or three of them get up and go outside to smoke, breaking the ambiance, breaking the fun you had all thought you'd have together,


hardly....you go to the toilet, up for a round, chat to people out with the group.

large crowds of smokers congreating outside bars in the Temple Bar area of Dublin, it led to a massive increase in violence on the streets, a much larger scale than experienced before the ban was implemented.

i think the drink would be more the reason and the people involved would be of the 'eejit ' variety.

I appreciate that people like to smoke but others don't...are the new laws really so bad?