I had not considered UKIP, But giving back the right to smoke or not, smoking pubs or not,
Will get my consideration,
It would be nice to have a party in power, Giving a freedom of choice, not a dictatorship,
How nice to have the community Pub back.

I've left three comments on this now over at Simon's blog including this one which is honestly how I feel : "A vote for UKIP for smokers is, if nothing else, making a statement. That's how I see it. I honestly feel it is my duty as there is no point in moaning about smoker discrimination if at the end of the day when the time comes to give politiicians a message, I vote LibLabCon (or SNP) and say I don't care how much you denormalise me."

Freedom to choose to smoke or not, as a publican to allow smoking in your pub or not. simple really, only one party give you that choice.
dont let the SNPLIBLABCON control yeu

Smokers vote UK I P in the elections

I agree that a message has to be sent to politicians that we are supposed to be living in a democracy. Nobody in the UK was allowed a vote on this extreme smoking ban i.e. NO SMOKING anywhere except in peoples homes or certain places on the streets. There was a marginal support (52%) for a partial ban but 82% were against the existing TOTAL ban.

Considering the enormous (negative) affect it has had on jobs/society - bars/restaurants/bingo halls etc. closing down - especially in small towns/villages and that NOBODY was allowed a vote except 650 MPS (not one of whom asked their constituents for a vote) is nothing short of a total breakdown of demecracy. The irony of this is that the Labour Party stated in their manifesto that it would NEVER ban smoking! Well done Tony Blair (sic)!

Do UKIP want to scrap the smoking ban in the whole of the UK, or just in Scotland?
I've already begun to spread the word, and a lot of smokers I know are now going to vote for UKIP!!

When I saw lefty "activists" smashing things up in London and heard little Ed Miliband getting swept away in his own rhetoric by seeming to compare these thugs and mugs with the suffragettes, I remembered Labour's own shame: their broken promise of a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty and their imposition of a blanket smoking-ban in defiance of their much-publicised manifesto "commitment".

I tackled Labour MP Paul Flynn on this a few years ago and was told, rudely, that I was politically naive to expect politicians to stand by such promises.

And Labour didn't even have the excuse of a coalition agreement. These charlatans did it because they wanted to and because they reckoned by their numbers in parliament that they'd get away with it.