Considering how much money the Government earn from cigarettes they will no doubt find another product to tax just as heavily to fill the gap since the smoking ban ( hopefully they could tax that real ale shit) then again who drinks it ? The ban will cause people to smoke less. If smokers boycott the bars and restaurants because of the smoking ban then the Government will lose the revenue they make from the alcohol sales as well! (please smokers do this and the government will raise income tax) What will they tax next?

Now the sale of cigarettes go right down where will all the lost revenue come from? possibly ID cards.

This is the "Nanny State gradually mutating into the "Big Brother State". Is this really happening in Britain? What right does the Government have to dictate where we can smoke? I don't smoke now but I am against the Government's increasing tendency to interfere with our personal lives.

Possibly the government could get of their bottoms and do something positive like chasing half those teenage mums living off our taxes into work and take the benefits of lazy people who decide not to work and just scrounge instead. Or better still, move in on those fat bottomed ladies who live in their local bakery filling their ass with cake and filling hospital beds or say they are too fat to work.