Libby Brooks: The truth is some smokers are more equal than others - The Guardian 1st July 2008

A year after the ban, advocates for free puffing make a powerful case. But they fail to recognise choice is about class, too Last week, friends and supporters of the smokers' lobby group Forest raised a doleful cigarette to the first anniversary of the smoking ban in England. On the terrace of a smart private members' club in London's Belgravia, the redoubtable David Hockney - a regular contributor to the letters page of this newspaper on the subject - bemoaned for the umpteenth time the Labour government's curtailment of his liberties, fag in hand.

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