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Posted by Fig, 22:45, Tue 1 November 2005: #

Stephen, What would happen under your proposals to ceremonial smoking, such as Shisha (Hookah) pipes in African and Middle Eastern cuisine restaurants (this smoke smells of fruit and is nice!); and cigar/pipe rooms in restaurants and hotels? Would we be living in a country where the only way someone wanting to smoke a birthday present of a fine Cuban cigar would be to go out into the rain?

Would the burning of incense and other plants indoors count as smoking, and if not why not?

I accept that the health argument of second hand smoke outweighs the civil-liberty argument of smoking; however the way to tackle this is to enforce air-quality indoors. Those venues without the will or money to ensure clean air would have no choice but to ban smoking themselves. Those venues that can ensure clean air wouldnt have a problem.

"Having a smoking section in a restaurant is like having a peeing section in a swimming pool"

Fig

This is on the message Smoking in public places.

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