GIVE SMOKERS PRIVATE AREAS TO GET THEIR FIX

A SMOKING ban will drive the tobacco smokers on to the street and into
shop doorways. Instead of discouraging tobacco smoking, a ban will do
the opposite by introducing children to the habit.

How many mothers smoke at the school gates?

Surely tobacco smokers should have places such as Amsterdam-style
coffee shops where they can get their fix of nicotine in private? They
are, after all, drug addicts of a sort.

As a non-tobacco smoker, I object in the strongest terms to sharing
someone's stale exhaled tobacco smoke. It is a basic human right to
breathe fresh air.

If I choose to smoke cannabis (unlike tobacco, cannabis is not
addictive), I do so in private, not on the street or at school gates,
where children are present.

Mark Gibson

Legalise Cannabis Alliance