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Originally Posted by Xaccers
1. The majority of patrons of smoking establishments are smokers. This will affect them more than the majority of non-smokers in the UK
2. You have the choice of not entering a smoking establishment, no one is forcing you
4. Where's 3?
5. Not working in a smoking establishment protects anyone who doesn't want to work there due to the smoke.
6. Your wishing to deny me the choice to enter a smoking establishment and eat affects me.
3. Ahh here it is
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1. The group is self-selecting, because many non-smokers stay away. It is not a valid, representative group for the purposes of gathering opinion.
2. So a minority of the population make pubs effectively off limits to the majority, whose only crime is to care about their health. Conversely, no-one is forcing you to smoke, apart from your own addictive habit - which you can still indulge in outside, where it affects no-one but yourself.
4. We probably went over it a few dozen times already anyway, don't worry, I'm sure it'll be back
5. So, Johnny Chav, who left school with no GCSEs and no prospects, finds this is the only thing he is fit to do, but he's expected to turn it down (and lose what meagre benefits he might be entitled to as a result) because he cares about his health? You're living in cloud cuckoo land. A great many people are not privileged with the flexible job prospects that some of us have.
6. The only effect on you is an average five minutes added to your life for every fag you don't smoke while sitting in a non-smoking establishment. So sue me.
3. Told you it'd turn up!