Looks good skipy! I have not checked out their pedigree so I do not know if they are affiliated to any other party - Hopefuly not! They deserve some sucess with the reservations I have voiced previously. To that end I have emailed them with the following -

I am not a smoker but I can certainly sympathise with your campaign if not entirely agree.

The reservation I have, and I am sure other people will have spotted it, is that I feel we will end up with more discriminination than we had before! If the owner of the venue has the right to choose whether to be smoking or not then, effectively, you will have two sets of pubs, restaurants, cafes etc. In addition to this, to ensure complete fairness, we need this split to be statisticaly compatible with the number of smokers and non smokers. At the moment, I believe, this is about 35% and 65% respectively. So, we need 35% of venues to allow smoking and 65% to not do so. Is there any fair way of deciding which venues will be which? Would your party be willing to take on that responsibilty? What happens were a village has only one pub? Do we change the split periodicaly as the statistics change? I think the logistics of the scheme would be a nightmare!

I am honestly not trying to put unreal hurdles in your way. If you can address these issues in a sensible way then I am sure that your campaign will go a long way and I, even as a non-smoker, would offer my support. You say yourself that you would not like to subject non-smokers to smoke etc. I am sure that you would not like to return us non-smokers to the situation I was in where, out of 30 local pubs, there was not a single no smoking venue. That is as bad as the discrimination that you are now objecting to.

I look forward to your reply.

Regards

Dave Polshaw

I realy am looking forward to the reply and will post it here when I get one.

Cheers

Dave