Because smokers are being persecuted.
I think that New Labour definitly became overzealous with the anti smoking bills and in the end smokers were left feeling like social pariahs. I appreciate that the governments idea was that by stopping people smoking that it would save alot on the NHS. But they fail to grasp human nature, if a person is adviced on what to do they will but force someone to accept it whether they like it or not and they will rebel. I'm not even a smoker and I feel that they are being victimised. Help people if they want it, even raise the price but make them stand outside in the pouring rain 5 metres from a public building is sheer persecution. New Labour were even talking of making it illegal all together and yet I gather you can still smoke in the House of Commons? These anti smoking laws should be receeded. There just going to encourage more people to rebel and smoke illegally.