(546)  NO SMOKING IN SCOTLAND’S ENCLOSED SPACES FROM NOW ON

6 a.m. on Sunday 26 March 2006 sees the start of a new era in Scottish health history – and perhaps another symptom of the nanny devolved State – when the legislation banning smoking in public yet enclosed spaces – the Smoking Health and Social Care (Scotland) Act 2005 – comes into force (see previously No 478).  As with the abolition of feudalism (see No 400), many Scots chose to mark the final day of the old order of things with a party.  Scots Law News liked the sound (but probably wouldn’t have enjoyed the atmosphere) of the Goodbye to Smoking” do at a pub in Clydebank