Paddy Tipping supports full smoking ban

Paddy Tipping voted against excluding private clubs from the smoking ban.
I agree with this for a couple of reasons:

1) Employees of private clubs should have equal protection to employees of pubs. If the private club didn't employee anyone, and those behind the bar were volunteer members, then that would be a different matter, but that wasn't what was proposed.
2) The number of private clubs is very significant. A failure to extend the ban to them could make it difficult for pubs to compete.

I'm not entirely comfortable with the principle of a ban at all, however. As a non-smoker, I must admit welcoming it from a personal, selfish point of view, but it's hard to justify limiting other people's freedoms for my benefit. OK, there's a health consideration, but I don't have to go in pubs at all - it's a free choice, and it's also more or less a free choice to work in them.