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Originally Posted by orangebird
How???
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Well, 25% of people smoke, so that's a large chunk of the pub-going population that is automatically going to go only to a smoking pub if they want an evening out. You're not going to go to Wetherspoons are you, they serve food so you can't smoke there, even if you don't plan to order food yourself.
Add to that a proportion of non-smokers who don't mind too much about smoke, certainly not enough to want to leave their smoking friends out of the group on a night out, and the number of people in the city centre on a Friday night who are only going to choose among the smoking pubs grows further. The non-smoking establishments can do nothing to attract back this sizeable chunk of their potential clientele without stopping serving food.
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Until you answer my first question, I really don't get your logic on this bit either.
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The only way for a ban to be commercially fair is for it to be a universal ban - hopefully my reply above is clearer now?