DrWhile I make no comment on the health issues surrounding smoking, I am very concerned about this article and the rise in public health vigilanteism.

That children should be encouraged, either actively or passively, by teachers and the police to assault smokers in public because they do not agree with their personal choices is something that we should be very worried about.

This type of action has led to dreadful horrors in the past and society should be very worried about the public persecution of individuals merely exercising their freedom to make life style choices.