3rd comment- response to smoking ban blog

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I disagree with your views on the smoking ban, as I think peoples choices are being slowly taken away from us by the Government. Pubs should have split into non smoking and smoking, as it was before but with stronger rules to ensure that both areas were respected. Smokers pay massive tax duty to the Government through buying cigarettes, so why should they be forced out into the cold? It seems to contradict selling them in the first place, if you arent allowed to smoke in a public place.

The main establishment to be effected by the smoking ban, is obviously pubs, where yet again smokers give their hard earned cash to buy drinks. Why on top of all this should a ban come into place. On a positive note, the ban encourages people to quit smoking, but at the same time we shouldnt be forced into something we do not want to do.