Clive George wrote:
"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote in message
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In article ,
Clive George wrote:
That was the situation before the
smoking ban - what proportion of eg pubs were non-smoking? Bugger
all.

Which suggests there was no real call for the smoking ban in pubs.
There were non smoking pubs before the ban - and if they'd been a
commercial success others would have followed suit.

Eh? Rather the opposite, surely?

No. There are other benefits commercially to non smoking premises -
longer lasting decorations, possibly lower insurance premiums, etc.
But very few pubs chose to be non smoking. If those that did were a
commercial success others would have followed.

Yes, and that was my original point - given the choice of going
smoking vs non-smoking, commercial reasons dictated all but a very
few choose smoking. So TMH's idea of having "smoking venues" would
merely mean a return to the previous situation of smoking pretty much
everywhere.

Market forces. When the smoking ban was enforced the RASF's told everyone
that the pub trade would boom. The LVA said different and were proved
right, the English Pub is on is last legs over this.



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