According to this BBC Survey almost three-quarters of the population of the UK would support a ban on smoking in public. There are a number of other similar stats in the report, but I don’t know how much trust you can place in a report on statistics that includes the line
More than two thirds of respondents (64%) said …
Update: They’ve fixed it now.
Two-thirds (or 64%) sounds overly optimistic to me. :/
The more I hear things like this the more I think that democracy is flawed. I’m starting to think that the population is too stupid to be entrusted with something as important as choosing who runs the country.
Gosh, that’s two reasons today to welcome my Benevolent Dictatorship!
With all these online polls (self selecting) it is only the people that feel very strongly (and only a small proportion of those)who actually vote. 9000 out of nearly 60,000,000. And as always happens in this type of poll the results are split roughly the same as the prevalence in society. ie. 75% non smokers….25% smokers. The vast majority of people in the UK are not asking for Bans. Only the very vocal groups with a lot of funding are able to push their own personal views.