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So one lot of patrons (the majority in my local pub) gets turfed out so that you and other objecting non-smokers can go in? I doubt you're keeping the pub alive with your Coke and OJ.
Any more than the people who now go in for the occasional meal now that the smoking ban's come into effect keep my pub alive.
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no kids should ever have to put up with second hand smoke that should be the over riding freedom here
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No government should be able to limit freedom of choice without a very good reason. Until it is proven that smoking affects normally healthy people, including children, that is. Having said that, no parent with any will power should smoke in front of children, if only because children learn by example. But it's still a parent's choice.
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no one is stopping any one smoking just where they can
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So smoking should be limited to the outside? That's the natural extention of the no smoking in cars policy, is it not? After all if passive smoking is bad for children in cars, it must be just as bad in the home, mustn't it?
I'd never heard of
this guy, writing in the Independent before, but I think he's talking a lot of sense. I don't want a coffee shop to replace the pub.
Sorry if this is going off topic, but sometimes it's a natural extension of a discussion when people say provocative stuff.