Amendments to  the Tobacco Products Control Act will  prohibit smoking in public places such as stadiums, outdoor restaurants, parking areas and beaches.

Particularly outspoken has been the Free Market Foundation, which this week organised a conference on the
matter.

We don’t like the way the government keeps tightening  rules and  seeking to limit the space in which citizens can exercise free choice.  It is good to see some people fighting
 to preserve that space.

  There are also practical considerations such as the  observation by the Township Liquor Traders’ Association  that taverners will find it impossible to enforce the amendments. Lawyers pointed out  there could be constitutional problems with the amendments. These and other valid points were raised at this week’s conference.

The foundation’s corporate  members include   British American Tobacco.

Does that influence the views propagated?