Coming back to the NHS issue Claire, go to any A&E on a Saturday night, and you'll see more NHS pounds being literally bled all over the floor as a result of drunken fights, people hit by drink drivers, and drunken antics gone wrong than anything a smokers recovery time can do to a budget.
In fact, if you think about it, with all the fights alcohol provokes, with all the people run down by drunken drivers, alcohol must be the costliest drug there is in terms of NHS treatment and police manpower.
But that is, as I say, besides the point on wether we should be allowed to have smoking and non smoking pubs.