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Originally Posted by Mancie
yes Eric but do people really stay indoors or avoid pubs because they are not allowed to smoke?..I'd say that those who do are a very small percentage..very small.
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Agreed ... but are they just shrugging their shoulders, and putting up with what they think is inevitable ....
Many have mentioned on here that the pubs are closing in England at an alarming rate ... does this have anything to do with the smoking issue? It might be the high price of a pint ... but, (and here we go with the stats again) ... what percentage of the average weekly wage is the price of a pint. I know that when I started it was about two bob a pint ... but at that time, a laborer earned only about ten quid a week, give or take, and twenty quid was a real good wage.
The thing that really bugs me about the whole deal is that it is just one aspect of govt. sticking it's nose into things which are none of its goddam business ... trying to govern all the minituae of the everyday lives of free citizens, rather than govern the country.