So, day 4 of the (qute wonderful) ban on smoking in public buildings dawns across England..

The court papers for the first offenders will have been filed by police on Monday, the overnight print job generating piles of legal paperwork for despatch on Tuesday. They’ll have been landing on doormats across the country today.

“An official letter arrived for you while you were at school, darling. The envelope says it’s ‘On Her Majesty’s Service’. I wonder what it could be?”

Indeed. For they wouldn’t even know up to then that their daughter smoked, let alone that she would have been in a pub on Sunday night when she’d gone to her best friend’s “so we can revise together for next week’s exam.”.

Imagining the consequences is all too painful – although, dear readers, I suspect many of you will be doing precisely that.