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Originally Posted by clarie
What you are talking about is like a private members' club. Otherwise, I can't imagine a pub getting very far if they weren't providing for the public...
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A Public House,just means it is open to the Public. They are not duty bound to anything apart from adhere to Health and Safety etc.etc.
A licencee is allowed, if they so wish, to pick and choose who they decide to provide the service to.
If they want to bar somebody, they can.
Anyway, the goverment have now at least given a choice (sort of) to the licencees.
Only pubs that serve food will have to ban smoking, therefore your good old fashioned drinking pub that doesn't serve food is ok to carry on.
Licencees that curretly serve food can now make a judgement as to what is most important to them and if they want to serve smokers they can simply stop serving food.
Simple as that, and as far as I can see that is the end of this particular issue.