Barking mad

As I mentioned in my previous post I was interviewed this morning for East Midlands Today (BBC1).

The questions were about smoking but the soundbite they used was a comment I made about vaping.

Nottingham County Council's decision to ban both smoking and vaping during working hours was, I declared, "barking mad".

To watch the report click here or on the image above. It begins at 01:20.

The official Forest response can be found in this report on the ITV Central News website (scroll down).

Smoking banned from all county council-run property in Nottinghamshire https://t.co/pWrH9wx8Xr pic.twitter.com/alitojfq2Y

— ITV News Central (@ITVCentral) April 20, 2016

Comments

[Vinny Gracchus]

You're right, banning smoking and vaping during workers' breaks is "barking mad". But so are outdoor smoking bans and employing relentless propaganda to denormalise smokers.

[Chris Oakley]

The people who sit on county councils are not usually experts in any particular area. I do question the collective intellect and integrity of any group imposing this kind of ruling on its own work force but the councillors are likely to have been led or misled by supposed experts.

So the person firmly in the frame for this particularly nasty piece of authoritarianism is Chris Kenny, a man who has wasted our investment in his medical degree by pursuing a lucrative 30 year career in public health, a non-discipline that requires no particular skill whatsoever.

[david]

Don't these people belong to a Union?

Oh, yeah, right....