OT; It had to happen.

[Invisible Man]

Smokers stink but so long as they are not still breathing out smoke there is no realistic risk.

[stuart noble]

It's fairly obvious the bloke wasn't aware he was breaking this particularly stupid and ill thought out law.

[ARWadworth]

I am not always a customers. If I pay for a service I am a client.

Adam

[stuart noble]

Always nice to know we have rights. The government can give the people those without it costing them anything

[Stephen Howard]

Not necessarily. If you don't employ anyone you can do what like when working from home - if you do employ someone they may consent to your smoking.

This particular area has caused much debate in my industry, specifically the legality of people smoking at private events ( parties, weddings etc. ) held within the grounds of their own home. Staff will be employed ( waiters, bartenders, musicians etc. ) and the law states that if you're employed to work in a smoker's house you have no right to request that they not smoke in your presence. You do, however, have a right to refuse to work there.

Regards,

[Andy Dingley]

So cigarettes are just a tax-raising scam by the guvmint?

That'll be why they've recently banned smoking in so many places then. The passive smokers were gettign their smoke for free, so then Gordon stopped them. That makes sense.

[Grimly Curmudgeon]

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember "ARWadworth" saying something like:

Aye, Madame Cyn was telling us so, just the other day.

[Huge]

"If the person had never-smoked, living with a smoker raised stroke risk by 42%. If he or she had smoked at some point in their lives, but given up, the increase in risk was even higher, at 72%."

[Derek Geldard]

Woo Hoo !

Derek

[PJ]

He does not need to stop smoking he needs to move further inland.

these coastal walks which have been constructed in recent years are going to play havoc with the nation's health. ;-)