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Tuesday, October 10, 2006

Berlin 1938, London 2007

A couple of years ago, on the Nicky Campbell Show on Radio Five Live, I debated the prospect of a government ban on smoking in enclosed public places with an obsessive from the organisation ASH.
I put it to the fanatic that if the ban came in, her organisation, far from considering its job done, would call for even tougher restrictions, with the ultimate aim of a complete ban on smoking everywhere except in one's own home.
I'm sure there were many listeners who thought I was scaremongering.
Just take a look at this:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/10/10/nsmoke10.xml

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