Lung cancer is one of the worst scourges. I support the Minister for Health and Children, Deputy Martin, in his desire to completely ban smoking in pubs and restaurants because of the awful risks to members of the public. On the Order of Business this morning, Senator Michael McCarthy raised the issue of a man who was stabbed to death in a New York pub because he objected to the fact that another inhabitant of the pub was smoking. The risk that Senator McCarthy, if he is a smoker, might die of lung cancer is far greater than that of his being stabbed to death in a pub – bad and all though the behaviour of people may be in such establishments, even those in Dublin.