European Union Health Commissioner Markos Kyprianou has put his toe in the water to see what support there might be for EU-wide legislation to ban smoking in public places.

Kyprianou and EU health officials claim that passive smoking kills 79,000 Europeans a year and point to Ireland as the first EU country to ban smoking in all indoor public spaces, a similar ban in Scotland and a plan for the same regulation in the UK later this year.
More limited restrictions have already been introduced in Italy, Sweden, and Malta and Estonia and Finland are following suit.
Kyprianou's plan is actually more of a toe in the water test to see what support there would be for legislation from Brussels, which roughly translated means that if enough member states support it, then the EU might decide to go ahead.