Yeah, I guess I'm a smoking Nazi - if it's appropriate to call anyone who disagrees strongly with you on any given issue a "Nazi" on that issue - I suppose then I could call devout believers in any conventional religion "Church Nazis" by the same logic, huh?

I hear all the arguments that a restaurant, bar, pub, whatever should be allowed to set its own smoking policy. True, customers don't have to go in if they don't want to. But employees do. And if you try to say, we can only hire you if you don't mind second-hand smoke, some will be compelled to lie about it because they need the work.

And if you smoke in a private home with kids in it, you start the kids out with all sorts of health issues that might easily be avoided.

And if people in their workplaces go outside to smoke, the streets stink and the sidewalks end up an inch deep in butts. Maybe smokers can't help giving off second-hand smoke, BUT THEY CAN DAMN WELL HELP BEING SLOBS!



Oh, and Amos, the line about poles was intended as a joke. I forgot you were British.


Peter.