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Originally Posted by Pierre
Why not have the pub equally split???
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How many people are actually smoking in a pub at any one time? Maybe 20%? So why should a minority get a majority or even an equal share?
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Why make it law? why not let, as I suggested earlier, let the management of the establishment decide who they wouldlike to cater for?
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From a purely economic point of view, if *only* you ban it from your establishment, you will probably lose custom to the place that doesn't, so you're less likely to ban it because of that, Catch 22.
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All I am asking for is freedom of choice - do you not believe in that?
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You know damn well that I do believe in freedom of choice. But I am *NOT* free to enjoy a pub where some people are smoking and I am not protected from their smoke.
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Thats fine, that is what I was alluding to. If I went to a "none kids" pub and kids were running riot I would expect them to leave. If I was in anon-smoking pub and people were smoking again I would expect them to be booted out.
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But that's not what I'm talking about.
I said "Now let's put that back in the context of smoking. The smokers can do it, provided it's in the garden or similar set-aside area and if they do it in the main part of the pub it's going to affect other pub users, so it is *THEY* who should leave if they don't like it!!"
I'm talking about a pub where smoking or children *are* allowed, but in a designated, set aside area. Provided that doesn't affect others, I have no problems with it.
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There is such thing as passive abuse, passive drunken assault, passive knocked down and killed, passive home wrecking, passive wife beating.
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You're getting desperate now. None of these equate to my getting drunk because of what you're drinking, neither do they equate to my inhaling someone else's smoke.