Cigarette clampdown

The crackdown continues. The Scottish Government yesterday announced new measures further to reduce the incidence of smoking. The ban on smoking in enclosed public places was one of the boldest, most imaginative and most effective pieces of legislation of the previous Holyrood administration. Fewer people are smoking as a result of the ban, which has also had a positive health impact on Scots. Hospital admissions for heart attacks are down since the ban was introduced, for instance.