Smoke Free Pubs

Hi Folks, was running a pub last week which has gone non smoking , and must say what a pleasure it was to work in a great enviroment where at the end of the day your clothes do not reek of stale smoke . Cheers !!

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cloudy
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We'll all find out for ourselves next week!

Reply to
gavin

Great, isn't it - my local went smokefree 6 months ago.

E.

Reply to
eastender

Ah yes, roll on drink-free pubs :-)

Reply to
PeterE

It's going to happen Peter. Live with it. We went to a pub last night after a concert (Bamford Arms - only Hyde Jekyll's on, no Boddies, what a shame :-) ). Not many people were smoking (none of our group) but our clothes stank of stale tobacco afterwards. That's the difference between a smoking ban and your bete noir, an alcohol ban. If you drink alcohol, nobody else stinks of it, or gets poisoned by it, as a result.

Reply to
BrianW

Unfortunately, Peter is finding this very hard to deal with - I think he might need counselling :-)

Reply to
gavin

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I thought that happened once, landlord forgot to renew or something; there are plenty of pubs with nothing worth drinking.

Reply to
Prometheus

Yes, maybe I need to be sent to a re-education camp...

Reply to
PeterE

ITYF it's England finally catching up with the rest of the UK!

Reply to
Marcus Red

Would it would stop your whingeing about the smoking ban, Peter?

Reply to
gavin

Indeed - way overdue, IMHO.

Reply to
gavin

Peter thinks that this is the thin end of the wedge, and alcohol will be the next target of these control freaks. I don't think he's correct, and he's flogging a dead horse in this case, but it's a perfectly valid view which he is quite entitled to hold.

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BrianW

Personally it seems to me that he is burying his head in the sand - but he is entitled to do that too!

Reply to
gavin

IMV all the morons in CAMRA who are welcoming this are burying their heads in the sand.

Reply to
PeterE

Morons? Harsh. Does it not occur to you, Peter, that you are in a very small minority? And does that not tell you something?

Reply to
gavin

As far as pubgoers go I am not in a small minority at all. Huge numbers are aggrieved about the smoking ban.

And all opinion polls that have offered the option of "separate rooms for smokers" have gained a majority for that.

I am a non-smoker of many years' standing, as I have often stated.

As famously said by Danny Frederick: "If you value the freedom to do the things you enjoy, you had better defend the freedoms of others to do the things they enjoy too."

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PeterE

It's far too late to start a campaign now. Accept that smoking just isn't acceptable in public any more.

Reply to
Marcus Red

Have you a source for that assertion?

Huge numbers are

And huge numbers are overjoyed. All of which is irrelevant because it's happening.

It's also irrelevant whether you smoke or not.

I want the freedom to be able to go into a pub (and other public places) and not have to inhale someone else's smoke, thereby increasing the risk of getting a disease via passive smoking. Thankfully that is happening at long last.

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gavin

How dare you talk about freedom when for years non-smokers have had the freedom to set up their own non smoking pubs. But they chose not to.(with one or two exceptions).. Now you and your kind are denying smokers the freedom to set up their own smoking pubs.

Reply to
paul

Tough, live with it. As we have had to live with getting smoke blown all over us at pubs, clubs, restaurants and many other places. We're fed up with going home stinking of other peoples smoke and having our health affected by it. Rearrange the following: other shoe is foot now the the on

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KeithS

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