As a gigging musician, I couldn't be more pleased about the smoking ban in the UK. I hated breathing in cigarette smoke every night while singing. I didn't have the choice not to breathe it in as long as I wanted to do my job.
HOWEVER, if smokers insist on slowly killing themselves in enclosed public places, I see no problem with allowing pub / club owners to provide them with a separate, adjoining smoking room with a filtered ventilation unit so they don't have to stand out in the rain while they do it.
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