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Copies have been sent to the following mailing lists – Forest, The Free Society, Save Our Pubs & Clubs: Amend The Smoking Ban.
Update: Emma Boon of the TaxPayers Alliance has just tweeted:
Response from a subscriber to The Free Society:
Sorry but I can't in conscience support this one. Tobacco related illnesses cost me too much money each year via the NHS and it's a self-inflicted condition. Children of smokers have no choice about getting asthma and other respiratory illnesses as well as the other damage which stunts their growth and limits their futures.
Given that people at the lower end of the socio-economic spectrum are amongst the heaviest smokers in the UK, the wasteage of financial resources every day (literally benefits or low wages money up in smoke) is a serious impediment to their children's future.
I support people's right to make choices but Tobacco is a soil depleting crop which wrecks the agricultural potential of under-developed nations and Tobacco products wreck the health of people who use them or live with those who do.
I think he joined the wrong group!
Rod Liddle has plugged AWT's petition in today's Sun while suggesting that the Government should "reverse the ban on smoking in pubs".