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Originally Posted by Restless
being a none smoker i think its a great thing... .but then again i dont frequent pubs that much either way hehehe
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Which is a good thing for you and other none smokers.
Unfortunately for those of us that do smoke and for pubs it is a disastrous thing, before the ban, yes, the pub was dominated by smokers. The ban was brought in with the promise to Landlords that as well as wonderful clean pubs they would get all the people that didn't like the smoky atmosphere suddenly taking the places left vacant by smokers that would now drink at home.
What happened? In came the ban a large majority of smokers started drinking at home and to replace them? Nothing, the pub trade has been decimated because they have lost their regulars and their trade, the result of which is many pubs stopped trading as the hardship bit in.
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We smokers were forced outside, if we are lucky a bit of a shed for shelter as the dedicated smoking area and then we have to suffer the irony of a very few non smokers coming into this area on sunny days complaining about the smell of smoke, well Doh! you have the whole of the inside of the pub leave us this one little area in peace.
