Pity you can’t do the same with the snow

Susan – It is only a matter of time before there is an “Office of People Control”. What you do in your home, and what I do in my home is our business and not the governments. If you want to enforce a rigid anti-smoking stance that is your right. If I want to smoke in front of a tradesman then I will, because as owner of the house, it is my right. The government can go and do the other thing….

Robert – I am getting close to the point of all out rebellion. They are trying to stick their [runny] noses into every aspect of our lives and that ain’t on.

Baino – You had better come over quick, and move in with our K8

But between themselves and Citizens Information, I got the smoking-ban-at-home facts:

There are exemptions (like prisons and nursing homes) where the employer has the right, but not the obligation, to enforce the ban. Apparently, if a non-smoking tradesman comes along to your house to fix something, he has a legal right to complain if you hang over him puffing on a cigar while he works.

But you’d have a moral right to kick him in the arse if he did.

And the advice I got, unofficially official of course, is “Who cares what the law says, it’s not enforceable” which is good enough for me–I’m in West Cavan after all; if we can live without planning permission, we can live without smoking bans.