Flouted smoking ban

Like Adrian Caruana (Enforcing Smoking Ban With A Heavy Hand, November 6) I too am a non-smoker, and the cigarette smell on my clothes and hair after socialising in bars in my locality does not amuse me at all. It is very disturbing that smokers are gradually taking over the bars in total disrespect of the law, as if no law exists forbidding smokers from puffing away in full view.

I live in Ħamrun and visit particular bars come Sundays and the odd football night. Every single place I enter is crowded with smokers, and when politely asked to refrain from smoking, usually their reply is that I, a non-smoker, should leave the place and go elsewhere, as if smokers enjoy a divine right to patronise places where others do not dare to enter.

May I suggest that the local police occasionally effect a snap check in the popular High Street bars, and, perhaps, bring to book those persons who behave in this disrespectful way towards society.