Smoking rooms: tweet @peter_levy now!

It's the sixth anniversary of the smoking ban in England on Monday.

Working men's clubs in West Yorkshire are calling for the ban to be amended to allow separate well-ventilated smoking rooms.

Who could object to that?

Well, the guy I have just been interviewed with on BBC's Look North (Yorkshire and Lincolnshire), to be broadcast at 6.30pm. He was a doctor, I think, because he kept banging on about the health benefits of the ban.

He talked about a reduction in hospital admissions, fewer instances of asthma - all bollocks, of course, but difficult to refute in the short time available.

I couldn't see him because he was in the Look North studio with presenter Peter Levy and I was in a tiny remotely operated studio in Cambridge staring into a camera while listening via an ear-piece.

Unusually for an interview recorded 'as live', we did two takes. Needless to say I was happier with the first take but they wanted to do it again because they said my answer to the first question was "too long".

Anyway, Peter Levy has invited people to tweet him in response to the question 'Should pubs and working men's clubs have a smoking room again? Or should ban continue?'

Tweet @peter_levy now.

Update: Just seen the programme. My opponent wasn't a doctor, he was public health official Dr Tim Allison of NHS East Riding of Yorkshire.