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the smoking ban hasnt helped but it is not that that has ruined the pub industry it is the Longer opeing hours due to the supermarkets wanted to open 24 hours

when the supermarkets wanted 24 hour opening you cannot allow them to sell beer and not pubs so what needs to happen is that we erevert back to the old opening hours (although it is prob too late now) this would focus drinkers as it did to drinking in the permited hours and not all through the night. if you remember accrington on a sunday was the place to be coaches coming from all over because you drank from 7pm till 10.30 then went home after some food on church street now the fast food places dont need to open till 2 am and stay open till 8 am this again because we change the drinking laws to suit the supermarkets on a saturday you went out at 8 ish drank on the pubs till 11 when last ordwers were cvalled then went to a night club till 2 am the drinkers were focussed on when they had to drink now they can stay in drinking till 11 pm then go out till 6am drinking it has spread all the drinkers out and must be costing the pubs and clubs a fiortune in extra staff and longer hours .

unless we get back to the old ways of drinking laws all thew pubs will be shut in the next 5 years

yes the breweries dont help but at the end of the day the government need to stop the supermarkets dicktating the hours we can sell alchohol