Smoking ban: don't go outside alone...

...or you might suffer the same fate as this very unfortunate German tourist in London:

Tourist raped as she left London hotel for cigarette

A tourist was dragged from a central London street into an alley and raped.

The 25-year-old German woman had left her hotel to have a cigarette and was standing outside the Paradiso E Inferno restaurant on The Strand.

She was grabbed and dragged down Southampton Street and into an alleyway off Maiden Lane where she was assaulted at 2300 BST on Good Friday.

So there we go.  We have one in ten staff in hospitality establishments who are asked to police this nasty law facing abuse and violence, and now a real life rape of a smoker made to stand outside in the dark late at night.

So much for the "precautionary principle".