Britains Chief medical officer, Sir Liam Donaldson, published his annual report last week where he among other things advocated minimum prices on alcoholic beverages. In the report he also put much emphasis on the harm alcohol use have on others than the drinker him- and herself.

In the effort of curbing smoking second-hand smoking or passive smoking has been one of the strongest arguments. Donaldson says that when he in an earlier report called for passive smoking to be taken seriously it was because common knowledge was not being translated into …