Anti-smoking lobby using phoney science
This has been done through a combination of phoney science and the creation of fear and uncertainty around the supposed effects of environmental tobacco smoke.
They now have sunk even lower, threatening politicians who, rightly, are considering modifying this crazy blanket ban which has marginalised up to 30% of the population.
ASH have a simple position no compromise, as they occupy their moral high ground, preach to the rest of us and dictate Irish health policy through their stool-pigeon Health Minister Micheál Martin.
Their actions and posturing are not so much about our health and welfare as about themselves and their increasing power and influence.
Well, gentlemen, we smokers may not be in the majority.
You may have bullied us with your €3,000 fines, etc, but there are over a million of us in Ireland who are now no longer welcome in our favourite places because of our addiction.
Though we are not organised (yet), perhaps in our resentment we did influence the recent elections outcome and that was in a summer of beer gardens and fine weather.
Think of how a million of us will feel during a winter election.
John Mallon,
5, Shamrock Grove,
Mayfield,
Cork.
