Still in Dublin where I'm interviewing candidates to work for Forest Eireann as our media and public affairs manager.
Meanwhile, back home, Brighton and Hove City Council's health and wellbeing board (sic) yesterday voted to hold a public consultation on a plan to ban smoking on the beach and other outdoor public areas.
The BBC has a report here (with a quote by Forest) – Brighton seeks views on beach smoking ban.
Prior to the vote my colleague Rob Lyons (Action on Consumer Choice) was on ITV's Good Morning Britain (on the sofa, no less).
Other outspoken opponents of the proposed ban were Chris Snowdon (on Sky News) and The Freedom Association's Andrew Allison on Five Live Breakfast.
I did a couple of local radio interviews (BBC Sussex and BBC Northampton).
On BBC Sussex I was up against Amanda Sandford of ASH. On BBC Radio Northampton I went head-to-head with John Britton, professor of epidemiology, director of the UK Centre for Tobacco and Alcohol Studies at Nottingham University, and a member of the ASH Board of Trustees.
As ever, Britton wasted no time raising the issue of Forest's funding. I hit back, saying he benefitted from taxpayers' money.
Only then did we address the issue of smoking on the beach but, given the final word, he chose to make another crack about me being paid to sell cigarettes (I paraphrase).
Needless to say Amanda (ASH) and John Britton were in favour of banning smoking on Brighton beach.
Clive Bates, former director of ASH and now a leading e-cig campaigner, is a big fan of Britton (A blunt challenge to some common arguments against e-cigarettes).
I wonder what Clive thinks about the proposal to ban smoking on Brighton beach. I suspect he's not against the idea. Perhaps he'd like to tell us, if he has time.
(As you can tell, my patience with these tobacco control campaigners turned e-cig advocates is wearing thin. Under the surface they're still control freaks.)
Update: Today's Times reports that 'One of Britain’s most popular beaches could become a smoke-free area in the latest curb on outdoor smoking'.
The Guardian has what I think is a fair and balanced article - Is Britain ready for outdoor smoking bans?. Includes a quote from me plus some interesting responses from some smokers in Millennium Square, Bristol.