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Health Bill

I support this amendment, although I do not think it goes far enough. I believe that if there are three or four people in an office, all of whom are heavy smokers—I am not one of them—and do not mind the smoke of their fellows in the office, why on earth should they not do so? In reality, it will be extremely difficult to police, because no policeman or any other outside body has the right to burst into an office and say, ““Are two people smoking at a time?”” In practice, people will mostly go on doing what they have always done. The Government talked about banning smoking in public places, but this is not a public place. We are talking about people’s offices. They are not public. Banning smoking in public places may be fair enough, or partially so, but banning smoking in something as private as an office is not, if everyone who uses that office is of a like mind.