I agree with you kim - hence my first two words "Fair enough".

In NZ you cannot smoke in an enclosed public space, so bars and things are all smoke free, plus all enclosed work places are smoke free. That includes company vehicles. As a non-smoker with asthma I like this law .

Crazy thing is though, if you use your car for work, ie. your boss asks you to go somewhere and reimburses you for that, your car is deemed to be a work vehicle during that time and, even if you are by yourself, you cannot legally smoke in your car for that period.

For smoking at workplaces, and for smoking areas at bars etc., the law says that any smoking areas either have to have no roof, or no more than 2 walls, otherwise it is deemed to be an enclosed space. I used to work at a sawmill which, because of timber being reasonably combustible, had strict rules about smoking. We had tin sheds in certain areas for the smokers to use and these were used only by smokers and not for anything else. When the new legislation came into effect we had to get rid of them.

These are prime examples of bureaucracy gone mad!