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Originally Posted by ian@huth
It appears to me from reading the last few pages of this thread that smokers are willing to make compromises but non-smokers just want everything their way.
How about a pub landlord having the choice of whether he wants his pub to be smoking or non-smoking? If he decides that it is to be a smoking pub then he provides a room or outhouse where the non-smoker can sit to escape the smoke. It is all about rights and in my eyes the owner of the establishment who puts up the money to open and run it should have the ultimate say in what goes on in his establishment. Why should that landlord have to ban smoking in all of his establishment just in case you or other non-smokers want to have a drink there? It is all about choice and smokers should have the ability to choose just as much as non-smokers, but more importantly the owner of the building should have the ultimate choice.
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Originally Posted by clarie
In my case, I find the reason is because I know how easy it is to give up, and that the benefits of giving up are so great.
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You mean
you found it easy to give up. Have a medal. That doesn't mean everyone does. And reading dome of your other post, you were barely more than a social smoker. I however have smoked 20 a day (possibly more on a particularly boozy night out), for the past 10 years and find the thought of giving up hard to deal with, let alone actually doing it.
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Imagine if you and I did have the same local pub and both loved it as much as the other. I was saying if we did, then shotgun that pub becoming one of the non-smoking pubs
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Pointless thought really. If my local goes nonsmoking, it'll close anyway. So therefore a good frind of mine loses her business and her money, I lose my second job and me and my other chuffing mates have to find a smoke-easy somewhere else....
