The real problem here - surely - is a fact we all know and have been there ourselves in many cases.

Lack of cigarettes (and even the threat of it) makes smokers

BLOODY IRRITABLE OK?

Skipy - the ban does not prevent you from doing anything except smoke in a public room. The rest is a personal choice and we respect that - but reserve the right to think those choices are not irrevocably linked in any other way.
I remember you 20 years ago being at the Highworth Club run by another smoker - Bill Bailey. It was no smoking then. They had no beer breaks - but two fire breaks. And you thought that description was amusing. How things change.