HAVING returned to Bahrain after my annual holiday, I went for lunch at my favourite restaurant in Adliya hoping that the much-heralded smoking ban had been implemented as we were first advised last January. Of course, it had not!

The restaurant manager told me that all they are waiting for was the official letter from the relevant ministry, which they can put up on the wall, and they will enforce the ban immediately.

Apparently the staff cannot wait to work in a healthy, smoke-free, environment! So, whichever ministry is responsible, please send the letters and enforce the new law! Name and address supplied