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Originally Posted by Osem
Sorry where did I write any of that ???
I wrote " Well it's very early days yet but there's no sign of a drop in trade in our new smoke free local. Time will tell though."
Which meant that since it went FULLY non smoking since Sunday it's been just as busy so far as we can tell.
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Originally Posted by
TheDaddy 
True Rizzy, I was listening to a publican on the radio crowing about his profits doubling since his premises went no smoking a few years back, he sounded a bit flummoxed when the presenter said they would probably go down now as all the other local pubs would be offering the same service
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Originally Posted by Osem
Well it's very early days yet but there's no sign of a drop in trade in our new smoke free local. Time will tell though.
Which is all well and good but the situations totally different, the previous no smoking pub is bound to suffer a fall in profits as he no longer offers a unique service to his community, something which wouldn't affect your local pubs trade as non of your local pubs offered such a service and therein lie's the problem imo, there could and perhaps should have been a compromise