Tobacco is a very good analogy indeed, Ebbie. What has been amazing is the success that antismoking legislation, legal restrictions of rights to smoke in workplaces, restaurants, pubs, shops, &c, has had on the public perceptions as to what is acceptable. So that, just a personal example, I have had guests who, despite my saying, as I felt hospitality demanded, that they could smoke in my home while my guests, they have nevertheless insisted on going out into the garden to do so.

So -- in that instance, the legislation came first, and the public acceptance of its pejorative implications for the activity under consideration followed.

Could not some similar effect perhaps result if your government were to LEAD with some sort of meaningful legislation, which public opinion might then follow?

As has happened with smoking -- over here, at least.

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