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As you'll see, Bern, I gave up 10 years ago. Like you, I couldn't bear the smell, especially on my clothes.
However, the answer isn't to ban smoking altogether; there are some habits I find as disgusting as you do smoking, yet they are permitted because we live in a supposedly free society. Yes, you have a right to clean air - so don't go into pubs that opt in to a smoking policy. That way, freedom of choice is restored, as opposed to the right wing fascism in Britain today.
And, just for the record, please note that my Grandad died of lung cancer at an early age. Please don't 'tar' me (sorry) with the "None of this namby-pamby lack-of-evidence-my-great-grandmother-smokes-134-fags-a-day-and-is-still-alive-at-172 - smoking kills and it inflicts pain and suffering" quote. In my original post I accepted that smoking is dangerous. I gave up of my own will, not because some officious Whitehall git sent me to Coventry for not being a model citizen.