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Originally Posted by TheDaddy
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 |
It's all explained above - our posts have been crossing and a missing 'A' was responsible for part of my confusion and the subsequent
"Sorry where did I write any of that" post which I deleted as soon as I realised what you'd intended to write.
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Originally Posted by RizzyKing
Oh and for the record companie's had nothing to do with it it was HMG who at election time said they were looking into implementing a voluntary solution that no smoker objected to then when reelected they introduced the draconian total ban so no public consultation whatsoever. As i keep stating this was a removal of rights from a very large group of people and having got away with it this time it will happen again maybe next time they will hit some of the people on here where it will hurt them.
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Yes I realise that of course. My point about the companies who run pubs/restuarants was that they could have made a purely voluntary commercial decison to have some smoke free establishments in this area (and anywhere else) at any time but the vast majority didn't. Had more of them done so, I think a great many non smokers like me would've been happy with that situation and not necessarily supported a total ban (if indeed we'd been asked about it in the first place which of course we were not).