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Originally Posted by jeffcj
Even that's subject to qualification. If you have, say, the decorators in, then your home becomes their workplace and [if they're non-smokers and/or assholes] you might be prosecuted if you smoke.
The UK has been overrun by control-freaks and small but influentially-loud lobby-groups who pursue their various petty power-trips without reference to, understanding of, or the slightest care for the sorry history of over-regulation and the damage it's doing to civil society. We have moved from "whatever is not explicitly forbidden is allowed" to "only what is specifically allowed is permissible".
I'm a heavy and utterly uinrepentant smoker... and so I won't live to see the end-game of this sorry mess : -)
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Ahh but then you can fire their asses.
Ohh wait that would probably get you a false termination charge, huh?
The US is doing the same kind of stuff.
Although as a non-smoker I personally do like the no smoking in eateries. The separate sections never worked and if you are not used to the smell of smoke it can be detrimental to enjoying a meal. BUT then there is the opposite side too, someone's right to enjoy a legal vice on public property. No easy solution.
As to your heavy smoking I have known several people and seen even more on the news who live to be 90 or even 100 years old and smoke and drank their whole lives.
