Closing the health inequality gap

Molly Finch writes: A lot of pubs, when surveyed, said they would rather stop serving food than ban smoking. The answer, from the anti-smoking lobby, was that these are obviously pubs in poor areas and it is the government's duty to help these poor people for their own good in order to close the health inequality gap. Apart from the repulsive, bossy, do-gooding attitude here, where are they getting this information that most smokers are poor and deprived? Creative people are renowned for their smoking. My one-time art editor stuck a notice on his door 'This is a smoking room. Fuck off'.