PEOPLE asked whether they favour any move to protect children from
danger will surely agree, naturally assuming the problem to exist. Your
report (News, September 29) of 75 per cent public support for a smoking
ban in children’s play areas is a typical example of such manipulation
employed by Ash Scotland, who commissioned the poll.
Predictably, they offer no evidence. From personal
observation of a number of playgrounds near me, I’d say that’s because
none exists, but I invite Ash to prove me wrong.
The stipulation
of a ban “in” play areas suggests enclosure, but this is not always the
case, apart from which there would be nothing to stop smokers standing
outside any fence.
I consider paying a great deal of money to draw
in air and blow out smoke ridiculous behaviour, but it’s legal – and it
gives many people pleasure – and I for one am sick and tired of groups
like Ash campaigning for ever more restriction on freedom of choice.
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