ok i will open up this topic in 2 areas and this is my opinion and not meant to affend anyone, firstly i am an ex smoker who smoked for more than 25 years and belive that they have gone a little over the top with banning smoking in some areas like they were talking about banning people from smoking in cars here when there was kids in the car (another dumb arse do gooders bright idead) i personely cant not stand the smell of the dam things and i pisses me off when you have a no smoking area like a resterant and you have all the smokers standing in the door way and i have to walk through that to get in or out when they could at least walk 20 30 feet away. (i not saying all smokers are like that) the second thing is you may pay more tax but you suffer more medical problems from smoking so it would br fair to say you get a good part of that tax back