I would be happy for smoking to only be legal in any place the general public cant access. Ie a persons own home. I cannot think of any place that I can justify them being allowed to smoke where I or the general public would be present were it is remotely acceptable.
All of my immediate family smoke and they are as ignorant as all other smokers to its effects. I have just come back from my brothers wedding abroad and it was vomit inducingly obvious that the ‘brits abroad; had suddenly been allowed to smoke in public whilst away from the uk. I was ashamed tbh because it was so obvious that they had been let out of their cages to puff on their cancer sticks and would soon be put back in their boxes when they went home.
Again, I have also returned from a family holiday to Lanzerote. Sat around a hotel pool and two teenagers/early 20’s sat on the spare sun lounger next to me and my kids. Lit their fags and then for some reason produced the biggest plumes of smoke I have ever seen from 2 fags. After 5mins of this I pointed out I was not happy at my kids breathing in their shite and they moved on. Funnily enough other people were smoking around us but producing 1/10th of the effect these two hip youngsters were and they were blowing it directly in my kids faces.
So, unless smokers get some kind of electrical taser device that fires when they are being antisocial then it should be banned from 100% of areas open to the general public. Ie everywhere except their home.