Glad I don't live there then.

They can't do it. Tobacco is not a banned substance. Wonder if they've done a poll to see how many smokers are in that county?

As usual I can't read the article. So does it say smoking is banned everywhere - including one's private home?..Like not just in public?..If so I agree it won't work; not without a huge shitefight leastways. I'm a non smoker and I choose to ban smoking in my house. But there's a mini pergola with table and chairs up the back that people can go if they're desperate. I've even supplied ashtrays.

At a meeting of Oxfordshire’s Health Improvement Partnership Board on Thursday, a plan to reduce the number of smokers in the county was discussed, as was the costs of the habit on the public purse.

According to data from the charity Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) smoking costs the Oxfordshire economy a total of £121.7m each year.

This includes spending on healthcare, workplace productivity, social care and house fires.

Ansaf Azhar, Oxfordshire County Council’s director of public health said the new plan, called the Oxfordshire Tobacco Control Strategy, represented a ‘step change’ in how smoking was treated in the county.

A report to the improvement board said the government had set a target to reduce the number of people smoking in the UK to five per cent of the population by 2030.

The board was told this would be considered a ‘smoke free’ society because smoking would be so rare.

The aim for Oxfordshire is to go further and become smoke free on the same guidelines by 2025, becoming the first county in England to do so.