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I hope so. Personally I can stand smoky environments but is not the nicest of environments. Why should someone be allowed to impose there bad habits on you? Smoking = lung disease and so does passive smoking. Not only that but for once I would like to come out of pub without stinking of smoke. The new law in Ireland is great, hopefully this will now be adopted here.

I am sure some people will argue it is against civil liberties etc, but I would argue the opposite point. It is against my civil liberties that someone is allowed to breathe deadly smoke into my face. If people want to smoke then fine, just not in places where we it effects non-smokers and that is by far the majority of people.

A start would be for pubs to introduce smoking areas instead of non-smoking areas, especially since as I just said the majority of the population do not smoke.

Another problem that may happen and does at Uni is the 10m smoking radius outside of every public building. I find this quite sickly in the morning to have to walk through this smokers paradise is awful. I think not only should smoking be banned in public buildings but at the least within a few metre radius of entrances to these buildings.

For more information on this see: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/3577001.stm