The smoking ban as the first and foremost form of an anti-smoking public policy and legislation was introduced in the UK as the Scottish smoking ban of 2006 that only applies in Scotland, a Scottish regional law. Following consecutive and immediate course of action on behalf of the central London government, today’s smoking ban legislation was drafted in 2007, finalised and approved by parliament in 2008 and set to apply from New Year’s Day 2009, and hence the New Year’s resolution catchphrase derived of quitting smoking in the new year every other year.
The Scottish smoking ban was “adopted” by the Scottish decentralised government from the Republic of Ireland which banned smoking in all indoor workplaces and hence all indoor public places in 2004 before anything like it would even apply in Northern Ireland. Under that guise, the Scottish smoking ban was imported into the UK from another independent country not being Northern Ireland but the Republic of Ireland, leaving the rest with the deceiptfull illusion that it was internally transmitted inside the country and betraying the UK and the rights of its citizens to foreign influence from abroad on behalf of the Scottish decentralised government.
Progressive attacks on freedom and the rights of smokers have been made ever since the UK smoking ban by the UK government, including inflating the tobacco excise and duty to inflate the price of cigarettes and tobacco products for the consumer not to afford to use and obtain to make them utterly inaccessible to consumers, and confiscating the use of tobacco related trademarks with plain packaging legislation, which was falsely described as the “standardisation” of standard packaging. That came into force before there would even be illustrated pictorial warnings mandated for packaging, and introduced illustrations for tobacco packaging by using them to replace logos and package decoration simultaneously with plain packaging.
Smoking ban legislation often described as the anti-smoking law not to say the least spread internationally from country to country by their respective governments and their countries’ parliaments like an epidemic and contagion that is claimed by them to be smoking itself, as if the people are sick along with democracy and only they have got it right, as if human rights and theoretical values and conventions and the private lives of people depend on scientific facts and findings.
Speaking on what can be described as an overall dark anniversary for humanity, the 20th anniversary of the 2006 Scottish smoking ban in 2026, the smokers’ rights association FOREST Chairman Simon Clark said that ;
The 20th anniversary of the workplace smoking ban is nothing to celebrate. The ban was a disaster for many pubs in Scotland, especially inner city bars that had no outdoor area where smokers could light up in comfort. Hundreds of pubs closed and thousands of jobs were lost as many smokers chose to stay at home.
A comprehensive indoor smoking ban was unreasonable and unnecessarily draconian. Publicans should have been allowed to choose a policy on smoking based on customer demand.
At the very least, they could have been given the option of providing separate, well-ventilated smoking rooms that would have kept the smoke away from non-smokers who didn’t want to be exposed to cigarette smoke.
Claims that smoke-free laws have significantly benefited public health are exaggerated. The impact of secondhand smoke on non-smokers is questionable, and there is no evidence that the smoking ban had a significant impact on smoking rates.
A far more significant factor, when smoking rates began to fall sharply from 2012, was the increasing popularity of e-cigarettes which offered smokers a reduced risk option to cigarettes.
It’s true that most smokers adapted to the ban, but the war on smoking has gone far enough. Smoking is a legitimate habit and if adults choose to smoke that’s up to them. Government has a duty to educate people about the health risks, but beyond that politicians and anti-smoking campaigners should butt out and leave people alone.
Bring Back Smoking Freedom 
Anti-smokers consist of paid shills and miserable nobodies hiding behind ‘health’ like it’s Harry Potter’s magical cloak. But I see right through it, and what I see is people desperate to overcompensate for their own failures.
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The people you see desperate to overcompensate for their own failures are not concerned with decisions that do not belong to them but belong to each person on an individual level and dictating over matters of this nature is none of their business, not their job and not their duty. Others rely on them to have their nation governed and are abused by them in return. Now that people have been deprived of exercising their rights there are no people left in this country who are citizens of the same state that has done so and we are a minority in our own country as a result of the smoking ban and foreigners pouring into our country to set things right and do things in the right way, because of that way being wrong. Exactly things like the smoking ban have made our country vulnerable to its border and to interference because interference means tampering.
Politicians just like anybody else should comply with the law and the constitution at the same time and exercise their profession responsibly and within their remit, not spend taxpayers money and precious time to restrict the population and turn the force of the law against the citizen, whether you smoke or not because if you don’t the same would happen if you tried it and you did.
The law as a smoking ban is arbitrary and punishes innocent people for their innocence of smoking legal cigarettes bought from the market, which is a general rule and principle not to be allowed and provided by the constitution not to be allowed to happen.
The smoking ban etc. consists of the arbitrary punishment of the law that has been chosen arbitrarily by the government, not by any politicians like those MP’s who have voted for it, but by the government. The government has then used or manipulated the parliament to do what it wanted to do and dictate what it wanted to citizens, and this is commonplace in dictatorships, which rely on dictating what will happen like it has been done. This is not allowed to them by the constitution and is punishable by the constitution as long as someone nails them to its enforcement and raises the issue with the supervising authority.
Smoking inside buildings under a roof is not guilty like smoking in a petrol station or intensive care unit. There is a serious difference that is not credited by the law and everyone’s natural right to do so is no longer recognised by the law. So those politicians or the government have failed to contain themselves in their own country, failed to contain their country with its people and the citizens within its border, because they got set against them and this is what they have done.
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