Smokers were a minority in most pubs. Often a very small minority. Now they are a small minority outside pubs.

But I wish people didn't feel a a need to be aggressive about this, and think they had a right to do so. I mean acertain type of non-smoker. All right most people prefer not to smoke, and there are very serious health risks associated with smoking - but you could say the same thing about homosexuality. We rightly recognise that kind of talk in that context as intolerant and unacceptable.

Smoking in pubs was unpleasant for non-smokers, but it's a thing of the past, and it won't be coming back. The same should be true of the hate talk.