A CAFE offering the Middle Eastern-style water pipes to customers is the only premises in Scotland's largest city prosecuted under the landmark 'smoking in public places legislation' in its first decade.

The Limelight Sisha Bar in Glasgow's Tradeston area was fined £620 in 2012 after a series of raids and fixed-penalty notices by council inspectors.

Figures secured under Freedom of Information from Scotland's two biggest cities show the high levels of compliance with the act, which marks its 10th anniversary today.

In Edinburgh the city council has only issued 35 fixed notice penalties since 2006. The capital's authorities fined 21 individuals for either smoking in 'fixed premises or vehicles', while a further 14 venues penalised for allowing smoking in their businesses.

In Glasgow, the city council has been much more robust but still only issued an average of around 14 a year since 2008. Again, the majority of the 126 fixed penalty notices were to individuals. It also fined two premises for failing to have the appropriate signage in place.

Meanwhile, Scotland's leading anti-tobacco campaign group has used the 10th anniversary of the ban to debunk claims made by its opponents in the run-up to the legislation.

With another milestone in tobacco legislation, the introduction of plain packaging, just over a month away there have also been claims the tobacco lobby is using similar tactics to derail that.

Marking the anniversary ASH Scotland has quoted pro-tobacco lobbyists Forest claims from 2005 that children would face "hazardous risks such as fire, domestic abuse and household accidents that inevitably arise when people spend more time drinking at home".

Former independent MSP Brian Monteith had claimed the ban "can only lead to violence, if bar and restaurant owners have to try and enforce this stupid legislation themselves".

Another from evidence presented by the Scottish Licensed Trade Association to the Scottish Parliament warned that "no attempt has been made to calculate the cost to the country of providing pensions for smokers who live longer as a result of the smoking ban".

Jackson Carlaw, spokesman for the Scottish Tories, which was the only p[arty to oppose the ban as it passed through the Scottish Parliament, said: "The composition of the Conservative MSP group has changed considerably since this was passed. By way of example, I myself wasn't even one.

"But as the changes bedded in and became accepted not just by the general public, but voters too, that led to a switch in our own policy."