Keir Starmer is banning smoking from pubs and Nigel Farage is furious it’s all nonsense after the Prime Minister said that he’s considering banning smoking in specific outdoor areas like pub gardens and nightclubs the Reform UK leader said that he may never go to the pub again if the ban was in place before hours later being pictured in a pub with a cigarette now the reaction to Keir Starmer’s policy have been suitably unhinged but how dangerous is it actually for non smokers to be around smokers outside and is this the attack on your liberties that some people say it is? well a 2010 study found that tobacco smoke can be detected up to 30 feet away Doctor Joseph Ambani told the i the concern around second hand smoke outside is due to the fact carcinogens toxic metals and fine particular matter are dispersed outside but are not neutralized so clearly there is some medical grounding to the policy but this policy has tapped into another issue the idea of a nanny state on social media Niger Farage accused Keir Starmer of trying to destroy British pubs they’re obviously determined to close the last of the British pubs down he also took the X to protest the policy by posting a picture of him with a cigarette outside the pub hours after saying he would never go to the pub again if the ban was put in place the former Minister for Common Sense Esther McVey also posted this tweet referencing a famous Holocaust poem the post sparked outrage while the board of deputies of British Jews called her tweet repugnant so far she has refused to take her tweet down someone has to stand up against the metropolitan politically correct bullies whether or not you agree with the outdoor smoking ban it has sparked an ideal debate about state responsibility the government clearly has a duty to protect the NHS but should their remit extend into how people live their lives