With its foolish smoking ban Labour will see its supposed growth agenda go up in smoke [Video]

Smoking ruin

WITH one foolish, nanny-state-on-steroids edict, Labour will put a match to its supposed growth agenda and see it go up in smoke.

Along with thousands of communities’ pubs and huge numbers of jobs.

The incendiary idea to ban smoking wasn’t in Labour’s manifesto, nor the King’s SpeechCredit: Getty – Contributor

For our pubs, a smoking ban would be a death knellCredit: Getty

We never thought any Government would care so little for personal freedom, not to mention livelihoods and the economy, to ban smoking outdoors.

That this new law could even engulf vaping, the most effective anti-smoking pastime ever, shows how absurd it is.

The health concerns the Government has swallowed sound utterly spurious. How many of us get cancer from a whiff of second-hand smoke in a pub garden?

For our pubs, though, it IS a death knell.

Battered by soaring costs and dwindling punters, especially since the 2007 indoor smoking ban, thousands …