“Dr Phil Button, can you prove Roy Castle did not die of lung cancer from passive smoking;? Did you have access to the post mortem report? No, you did not so you cannot prove otherwise!. What a silly and thoroughly unprofessional statment to make! If you are indeed a doctor, which I strongly suspect you are not then, as an educated man you will note that Roy Castle played wind instruments, such as cornets, trumpets and trombones, in smokey night clubs as a entertainer. As such, his breathing would have been more intense than normal in order to play these instruments. Bearing in mind he did not smoke and that he died of lung cancer, what does that suggest in your expert opinion? Further, the Roy Castle Lung Cancer Foundation work very, very hard to defeat lung cancer and to help people quit smoking. You really are a muppet!”

“Can someone tell what is the evidence that Roy Castle died as a result of passive smoking? Mmm...No.”

“Staff; 'fat' people dont give you cancer by passive ihalation of cigarette smoke. They dont make our clothes stink by walking through their cloud of cancerous fog. As an example; Roy Castle never smoked but died of smoking related cancer from pasive smoke inhalation from playing in clubs. And yes, anyone can tell who is a smoker; if its not the yellow fingers it's the husky, deeper voice, which is particularly noticable on women. Or what about the crack lines around your lips from dragging on your cancer stick, or the crows feet around your eyes from your smoke. It could be the fact your hair stinks of cigarettes or it could be the fact that you smell like an old ash tray. And, what really, really pees me off is smokers throwing cigarettes out of their car windows or down in the street. Littering is an offence; cigatte butts are litter......”

“In response to M, Lincoln, 4 months ago I was making exactly the same points as you about how much the Treasury gets from us blah blah blah. BUT my first grandchild is due in a week's time and so at the end of April I decided to give up. And now I can see how stupid I was for 20 years and how feeble your excuses are now. They are already coming after us car drivers, they're coming after people who eat because food's going up in price so much - who are you fooling? Oh and by the way I had a hysterectomy seven years ago and was wheeled outside in my wheelchair still attached to a drip and god knows what else just so I could have a cigarette. I must have been out of my tiny mind - so glad I got better!!!! PS Try the Allen Carr book - if all else fails shove it in your mouth it should stop you sticking a cigarette in there.”

“Was at Lincoln County Hospital A&E this evening, there was a guy smoking right in the open doorway to A&E, where there were several children waiting inside. How insensitive is that? Incidentally how come we ban people from smoking in pubs because of the risk of passive smoking to others, yet nobody says anything about parents and other adults smoking in cars where children are passengers and cant escape from the fumes this should be ilegal to subject your child to smoke in a confined space.”

“Smokers ranting. So there's something new...”

“why dontengland stop trying to copy the ways of north america. and let people decide for themselves with the freedom they should have, whether to smoke or not and where. its starting to look like marshall law is starting to be implemented in england. all our freedom of choice is being taken away from us. we should not allow this to happen just because politicians say it should”

“Why do these morons say smoking is a filthy disgusting habit and that all smokers stink? Fat people stink,and I would rather walk through a cloud of smoke than past a bunch of slobs scoffing and dribbling”

“"unlucky. do they realise how much their smoking costs the nhs? "

Yes, much much less than the 10bn taken from smokers in tax revenues every year (source on that is ASH before you start complaining). Even health england which is technically much much bigger than the NHS as a whole only has a budget of 97.7bn a year, and bearing in mind a quarter of the NHS budget is spent on IT systems, what percentage do you figure is spent on issues even alleged by the craziest of the crazy? I'd wager in number terms it's at the absolute maximum maybe 1bn, and remember I'm not talking about issues PROVEN to be issues caused by smoking but what the crazy people think is smoking related. Proven smoking related issues and cost to the NHS - I've not seen such a report but it's probably what, like 300 million?”

“Sorry guys - it's smoke to rule. It's not illegal to smoke outside (yet), and until it is the only action available to me short of civil dissobedience and terrorism in the war on smokers is to smoke anywhere and everywhere it's still legal to do so, and I'm sorry but this includes just *outside* (and this is the key thing here - outside - so you people complaining about passive smoking can be quiet to be fair) the hospital.

As for making smoking illegal across the board, well, I have an idea...

Lets play a fun game, I'll call it "Guess who the treasury will come after for the over $10bn lost income if everybody gives up smoking or is legally required to quit".

Now there's a fun game, my guess is.. People that drive cars. Now I'm a smoker, but I don't drive - I wonder how the effects of my smoking compares to the average non-smoking 4x4 driver who is [provably] giving everybody they drive past astma, lung cancer, melting the polar ice caps and all the glaciers in between, the perma-frost in places like siberia, and helping to cause pretty much every war in the world since oil was discovered?

The government expects everybody to be a non-smoker by 2023-ish, when that day comes and the british tax payer is going to have to find what is now just over an extra 10bn a year in tax revenue that is right now being paid for by smokers alone.”