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Old 31-10-2005, 11:34   #527
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Re: smoking and the pub

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Originally Posted by ian@huth
Doesn't the fact that there is a lack of no smoking pubs tell you something? Publicans could have made their pubs non-smoking some time ago. Why didn't they?
Centuries of tradition? Fear that if they were the only ones to do it, they would lose out? There are all kinds of reasons why legislation is often required to kick-start something that the majority have long been in favour of.
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