Well, that was an unqualified success then, wasn’t it?

The NannyNazis have managed to take smoking out of an adult environment, namely pubs, and increase the number of children being exposed to smoke in the home. Well done! And no doubt the amount of unregulated drinking in the home has also increased.

And just to cap it all the number of fags sold has increased by 5%!

Cigarette sales rise 5% - Times Online

For me this isn’t about smoking, it’s about freedom to do as you want as long as you don’t hurt anyone else, it’s about choice. Smoking is obviously not a smart thing to do but then neither is playing rugby or climing bloody mountains!

The legislation, if needed at all, should simply have made publicans declare their premises as smoking or no smoking and the market would have sorted this mess out.

If there was such a market for non-smoking bars and pubs why didn’t the industry impose their own smoking ban?

So it looks like the Great Scottish Public have stuck two fingers (OK one if you’re a yank) at the nannying, intrusive tactics of the bunch of fucking morons who seem to run this country.