No more smoking in the streets?

http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/255860/Now-smoking-will-be-banned-in-the-streets

Summary

Stony Stratford may be the first town where smoking in the street will be prohibited. Next month the Stony Stratford town council will discuss a motion to pass the ban. Anti smoking organisations and the British Medical Association are in favour of this idea. But there are also a lot of people against it saying that after the current smoking ban business has suffered and that this will probably make it worse. People might choose not to go out anymore because of this ban.

Reaction

I do understand how annoying it is to stand next to a smoker when you do not smoke yourself. Because of the passive smoking and the smell is awful. But I think if you ban smoking in the streets it would indeed be bad for business. Maybe they should make areas where you are allowed to smoke as some sort of compromise. Although the risk is that you get large groups of people gathered in one place which might cause the next irritation.