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https://thecritic.co.uk/defending-an-outdoor-smoke/

> Despite promising to ensure politics “treads more lightly” on the lives of people, Keir Starmer has recently announced that his government is considering the prohibition of smoking in pub gardens, parks and the outside of nightclubs. According to Starmer, banning smoking in public places needs to be done to reduce pressure on the NHS and to mitigate against second hand smoke. Neither argument works. Smokers are not a strain on the state and nor does the occasional wisp of smoke in a pub garden warrant infringing upon the publican’s private property. A liberal society must be opposed to this proposal with the utmost force.