I bet the smoking police are more efficient than the real police

Is there any area of our lives that the authorities do not think to meddle in?

I read this today in the Daily Mail: "Smokers will be stopped in the street and asked to take a carbon monoxide test in London's most hard-hitting anti-smoking campaign.

"'Smoking police' will target people at betting shops, bus stops and shopping centres to shock them into giving up cigarettes.

"They will be asked to breathe into a monitor to show how much carbon monoxide is in their bodies, and could then be signed up to local stop-smoking services and given access to counsellors.

"Pro-smoking group Forest described the campaign as a humiliating infringement of civil liberties."

I would describe it as a bloody disgrace.

I loathe the smell of smoke and have never had a puff but this is going too far. Let's hope that soon the smoking police soon have their own backsides monitored to find out how much shoe leather is up there...