On Wed, 08 Feb 2006 22:58:51 +0000, Andy Pandy wrote:

> What is your prediction about what will happen to tobacco use rates
> if/when they ban smoking in pubs?

It won't make much difference - smoking tobacco is still legal. The
tobacco smokers will just have to congregate outside, just like the
cannabis smokers do now.

> What has the effect been of the *increasing* prohibition on smoking we've
> seen over the last 20 years or so?

It's not so much a case of increasing prohibition - smoking is still
legal. It's increasing education and the removal of the "macho" status.
James Bond no longer orders his shaken but not stirred with a cigarette
dangling out of his mouth, like he did when I was young and impressionable.

If you look at the films from the 1950s and early 60s all the
sophisticates smoked.

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Phil Stovell, South Hampshire, UK

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