I read in this month's Southern edition of Hop Press that CAMRA are bemoaning the loss of more pubs and increased pressure on small pubs from, among many other factors, the smoking ban.
When the smoking ban was proposed CAMRA were stupidly quick to support it, now they rue the day.
Many smokers argued that publicans should have the choice, of whether or not to ban smoking in their establishment, a practise which existed at the time of the proposals for a blanket ban. Smokers also warned of the massive drop in custom as a result.
CAMRA, spare us your crocodile tears. You were quick enough to persecute smokers and withdraw their rights, now you pay the price of sleeping with dictators.
Matt
-- The Probert Encyclopaedia
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