In article . com,
dennis@home wrote:
You make it sound that smoking was something new. A far larger
percentage of people smoked within living memory than now. Oh - and
smoked in the same room or whatever as their kids.

So what if they used to, the fact is less do now and it started when you
couldn't go into a pub without some selfish smoker polluting the air,
even in none smoking areas.

It didn't start then Dennis. It *existed* then. All the nonsense about
smoking being any reason at all for the decline in the traditional pub is
just in your mind.

The decline started long before the smoking ban, continued when there were
no smoking areas, and onwards when it was banned completely.

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