Thread: smoking and the pub
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Old 03-11-2005, 13:25   #1007
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Re: smoking and the pub
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Originally Posted by clarie
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Originally Posted by Xaccers
So instead of giving the majority of patrons and potential patrons what they want, landlords should cater for the minority of potential patrons and all suffer finacially (as has happened in the other countries which have brought in a blanket ban), risk going out of business (as the lounge did but they won't have someone to buy it up and make a success of it) with the loss of jobs, the reduction in taxes, the increase in alcohol abuse and all that goes with it?
Non-smokers are in the majority.
Non-smokers do not make up the majority of pub goers. Where did you get the idea that they did from? Look at some of the figures that publicans have for the percentage of their customers who are smokers at http://www.thepublican.com/cgi-bin/item.cgi?id=18936
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