Good Morning Britain's Richard Madeley shares health woes after dad's premature death
Good Morning Britain's Richard Madeley has opened up about his previous heavy smoking habits on the ITV morning programme, revealing he once puffed away at "60 a day".The veteran broadcaster described himself as "grizzled and old" while discussing with fellow presenter Kate Garraway how secondhand smoke has impacted him since kicking the habit.
He commented: "Speaking as a grizzled old git, I usually know what I think about stories like this, but on this one I'm really split as an ex-smoker."In a conversation about the proposed banishment of smoking in open spaces such as pub gardens and play areas, Madeley reflected on a personal encounter.Delving into his own recent experience, Richard recounted: "Only three or four days ago in this lovely weather, I was having a coffee on the pavement cafe in North London that I like to go to, in the sunshine.
The guy next to me lit up, as he was completely entitled to do, and the breeze was blowing it towards me, so I was breathing in his smoke." He mused over the dilemma of smoker's rights versus non-smoker's comfort, adding: "I didn't know whether to say something or not, because I couldn't work out in my head whose right trumped whose his right to light up and have a cigarette on the pavement over a coffee or my right to have a coffee and read the paper without breathing in foul tobacco smoke," reports the Mirror.
Kate weighed in on the topic as Richard expressed his hesitancy to confront the smoker: "Well I was tolerant, I didn't want to make a scene.
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