Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 5:34 pm on 19 June 2018.
This is a public health Bill. Safeguarding, promoting and improving public health is surely one of the main duties that we have. The tools in the battle against smoking are ones that people expect us to use by now, and people support that. It's difficult to imagine any opposition to the smoking ban indoors now, and implementing that law was not difficult because people accepted its purpose—second-hand smoke is bad for you, and people recognised that.