The smoking law

[HCW]

Is there a minimum distance you have to be from a building (door/windows) to have a smoke? (Welsh law))

[Buenchico]

The legislation only applies to 'enclosed spaces' (either 'wholly enclosed' or 'substantially enclosed'). As long as you're not in an enclosed space, the legislation does not apply:
http://www.smokingbanwales.co.uk/english/frequ ently-asked-questions/5/what-is-meant-by-wholl y-enclosed-and-substantially-enclosed

Chris

[Ethel]

But any property owner is entitled to stop people from smoking in some or all of his own outside space.

[philiphales]

This is typical of this half-baked government to instigate a law without thorough thought about the circumstances.

At this time of the year the entrances to Offices; Railway Stations; Shops etc are crowded with smokers belching out the effluent of their drug related habits.

The stench permeates the buildings and one has to fight through a fog to egress or gain entrance. It should be law that a hatched area is painted over a minimum distance from all portals that smoking is not allowed, this way the perpetrators would no longer be able to hide behind their own ignorance by stating that they 'did not know'!!