Overall, however, I do not approve of the ever-increasing tendency to ban things. Whatever happened to the great English tradition of tolerance?

I tend to avoid (but do not absolutely avoid) clubs that ban smoking, partly on the above principle, partly because my late wife (killed by the medical profession, with some help from tobacco) could not have an evening there, and I still resent the discrimination against her.

I haven't smoked since about 1992 or 3.