Andy Hall wrote:
On 2007-11-18 23:48:13 +0000, "The Medway Handyman"
said:

Andy Hall wrote:

But what of non smokers who would like to work in one of these smoking
pubs? They wouldn't be able to do it.

OTOH, a smoker wishing to work in a non smoking pub could do so quite
easily. That's somewhat inequitable....

Oh dear. I thought you believed in market forces Andy?

I certainly do.



Assuming that 25% of the population smoke, roughly that percentage of pub
goers smoke, and therefore 25% of bar staff smoke.

So its safe to assume that 25% of pubs would allow smoking, so the 25% of
bar staff who smoke could work in those venues.

No brainer really - if you are prepared to allow free choice?

Ah but what about the choice of the 75% of bar staff who would like
freeom of choice over where they can work?

Yes, all those non-smoking bar staff desperate to work in a smoking pub.
This really is a silly argument.

They are in the majority and
yet couldn't work in smoking bars without being pickled..

There is a difference between free choice that affects only the person
making the choice and "free choice" that affects others as well.

Since we live in a civilised environment (allegedly), the principle of
freedom to do what I want to do as long as it doesn't affect the equal
right of my fellow individual to do what he wants to do, does reasonably
transcend a market force argument.