Its helping them because its promoting them quiting a bad habit that's gonna kill them in the long run. Therefore it should be harder for them to smoke! Isn't suicide illegal? I know its not at the same magnitude, but its completely justifiable for a government to ban certain things in public places if its going to kill the people doing it.

i dont want to give up smoking! regardless of how you feel about it, i enjoy smoking. that might not make sense to you and you might think what a tosser i am. but you cant take away my right to smoke. you think your doing us a favour by "discouraging" smoking. well heres some news for you, IT IS ONLY MAKING ME WANT TO SMOKE MORE! as far as im concerned, all you anti smokers out there have no place telling me i should give up. i do not smoke around people who are non-smokers and am doing nothing wrong. my life is MY life and i will do what i want with it. if i knock 20 years of it off by being a smoker, i will at least have enjoyed my life cause you dont get a second one.