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Health Bill

I am delighted to hear that the Government intend to allow people to smoke in separate, sealed-off smoking rooms in care homes and prisons, thereby catering for the needs and wants of smokers and those who dislike tobacco smoke. That is excellent news, and it shows that the Government are less than wholly draconian. Why, therefore, can there not be separate, sealed-off smoking rooms in office blocks, factories, and so on? There is no logic in applying something to one group of people and not to others. Secondly, the Minister said that smoking should be banned altogether in hospitals, even for long-stay patients. What about those who smoke outside hospitals in the open air, in the hospital grounds? Some hospitals, as he will know, have banned people from smoking outside, which led to a fatal accident just the other day. There is no justification for that, is there? What do the Government think about that? Finally, the Minister said that people will be allowed to smoke in the bedrooms of licensed hotels, but he said nothing about unlicensed hotels. Is it proposed that there should be separate regulations for them? Will they have less freedom than licensed hotels to allow their guests to smoke?