NORMAL LIFE: Smoking Ban In All Pubs & Clubs

It certainly has been a week for the media. Finland has revealed details of a deal to create the world's largest passenger vessel and the Finnish governnment have endorsed a Fertility Bill granting single woman (including lesbians) the right to fertility treatment. Back home, in England, the government has finally banned smoking in pubs and clubs and about time too.

The result in the Commons was met with mixed reactions. While many claim that the changes will create a healther nation, some smoking groups claim that the government is denying freedom of choice to millions of people, forcing people to quit smoking by making is impossible to consume a legal product. Um, sorry, but why should my clothes stink of cigarettes everything I visit a pub? Some unbelievably stupid pricks even claim that there's no proof that passive smoking poses a health risk. I'm like 'hello, wake up and smell the tobacco!'

The only drawback of such a ban is that the government predicts that 600,000 people will quit smoking when the new changes come into force in 2007. Of course, this is a good thing, but that means the government will have to find something else to tax to make up for the loss of revenue.

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