smoking and physiotherapy

The British government is going to give large amounts of money to environmental health departments around the UK to enforce it's smoking ban. No doubt this will also have some impact on hospitals as well. There will soon be a total ban on smoking on NHS sites. There is an irregularity in the current attitude to health promotion and the creation of a public health agenda in the UK. on the one hand smoking is singled out as one of the greatest health risks facing society but on the other hand there is uncontrolled access to alcohol with an increasing problem of alcohol related crime and social dysfunction. What should we conclude from this? Why this almost fanatical oppression of smokers but on the other hand the increasing liberalisation of alcohol consumption? Alcohol is a growing health problem but somehow this has been missed.