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Originally Posted by Stuart C
They are right. If the government had only required that SOME pubs enforce the ban, then there would be choice, both for non-smokers (go to a non-smoking pub, or go to a smoking pub and put up with the fumes) and smokers (Smoke, and go to smoking pub or don't smoke and go to a non-smoking pub). The ban as it is has removed that choice.
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At the risk of taking this thread right round in a big circle ... this legislation has been brought in as a health and safety at work measure, not a public health measure. It wouldn't make sense to apply it selectively.
There really is no grounds for objecting to this, it was a free vote in Parliament and is a truly democratic law.