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Originally Posted by Gareth
But the problem with this, Chris, is that non-smokers currently have a choice as to whether to visit a pub where smoking is allowed or a pub where smoking is not allowed/confined to a small area. After this ban is imposed, and the balance of power is shifted, as you put it, then the smokers won't have the option of going from a pub where smoking is not allowed to a pub where smoking is allowed, as this pub (er... that serves food too, I hasten to add) will not be permitted by law. Currently non-smokers have a choice - soon, smokers will not have that choice.
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My argument throughout has been that the 'choice' afforded to non-smokers is an illusion. For a start, there are virtually no non-smoking pubs. And to follow, in those pubs which have 'separate' areas, I have never once been in one where the non-smoking section is entirely smoke free, *except* in very large establishments, where it is possible to sit a long, long way from the smoke.