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Europe's smoking attitudes

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Today's guest editor David Hockney is against the UK's smoking ban, accusing it as an attack on smokers which has gone too far.

Although many other countries also have a ban, Mr Hockney feels the rules are applied in a more draconian way in the UK than elsewhere.

Defence correspondent and committed smoker Caroline Wyatt investigated continental Europe's anti-smoking laws.

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