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Originally Posted by Chris T
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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That would imply that publicans don't have brains and are unable to do a proper risk assesment on their business. If the majority of people have been in favour of smoke free pubs for a long time then there would be far more of them by now. Tradition is something that has no place in making a business plan. Profit potential is the ultimate driving force and it appears that there is a lack of non-smoking pubs because the publicans know that they will lose profit by going down this road.