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• House guests get the message 'you'll have had your smoke'  

According to the findings of a survey conducted by the BBC's Good Homes magazine, visitors who smoke in your home are less welcome than those who outstay their welcome, criticise the way your home is decorated or even raid the fridge.

Experts on both sides of the smoking debate yesterday agreed that the poll findings reflected a sea-change in public attitudes towards smoking. . . .

However, Neil Rafferty, spokesman for the smokers' rights group Forest, said: "You would never have seen the same kind of findings in a poll like this 15 to 20 years ago.

"The anti-smoking brigade have basically managed to turn smokers into social lepers these days. These people clearly need to start calming down and get some sense of perspective about smoking, as once the impact of the anti-smoking legislation calms down they'll move on to something else."

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