Four years ago today smoking was banned in every pub and club in England.
Where were you?
It was a Sunday and I was in the old Forest office in London, a short walk from Victoria Station (and Buckingham Palace), writing this blog post.
Surprisingly I was twiddling my thumbs. Media-wise the day was a damp squib because journalists had other things on their minds - flash floods, car bombs and the terrorist attack on Glasgow Airport.
We did much of our media work earlier that week when journalists and broadcasters attended our Revolt In Style dinner at the Savoy Hotel.
Writing in the Daily Telegraph today assistant editor and leader writer Philip Johnston comments on yesterday's story that Stony Stratford, a small town in Buckinghamshire, wants to ban smoking outside. (A ban on outdoor smoking in Stony Stratford? Is this the Britain we want?),
Johnston is the author of Bad Laws: An Explosive Analysis of Britain's Petty Rules, Health and Safety Lunacies and Madcap Laws. Last year he was a speaker at one of our Free Society debates.