The hypocrisy of politicians always finds new ways to amaze me.

Although I don't drink or smoke (but once did and remain very social), I generally dislike 'PC/nanny state' government policies and thus I generally oppose total smoking bans--especially for things like pubs--for various reasons. But, if the politicians insist on telling people what to do in that regard then they should at least put out their own cigarettes. It seems after all their big 'dog and pony' show for banning it at the Parliament, they repealed it after only 43 days because they didn't like it and wanted to go back to lighting up with smoking and non-smoking areas, so they decided to just exempt themselves.

MEPs’ cigarette ban goes up in smoke-News-Politics-TimesOnline