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Originally Posted by Russ D
Didn't you read the second paragraph above? It's a package open to business in the areas which can demonstrate they are at a distinct disadvantage or are seriously at risk from increased or new competition. Take my word for it (and I'm sure Chris W can back me up on this) that Wind Street is FULL of bars - every other building is a pub or club, there must be at least 30 of them on a road just over a quarter of a mile long. All are 'smoking' bars - The Lounge had trouble keeping up with them. Bear in mind that it did not start up as a non-smoking pub.
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Over 30 pubs and clubs in such a small area and just one non-smoking pub cannot make enough profit to survive? The remaining pubs that allow smoking have survived even though the vast majority of people (as claimed by some posters in this thread) want to escape the smoky environments that smoking pubs have. I think that fact tells you a lot about what most pub goers want and that isn't a ban on smoking. Most pubs in this country don't have grants to help them survive so why should The Lounge be any different? If The Lounge had difficulty keeping up why was that?