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Originally Posted by Chris T
At the risk of repeating myself (again), non-smokers are the majority of the population, and if they are not a majority of pub goers, it is because that group is self-selecting. The non-smokers don't go because it's smoky, but according to the quote posted by Clarie, when smoking bans are introduced, they start to return.
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Can you explain why when the oft mentioned The Lounge became non-smoking that non-smokers didn't rush in in droves to sample the smoke free atmosphere? Don't you think that market forces would mean that if the majority of people wanted non-smoking pubs then they would flourish in areas where non-smoking pubs existed. The fact that even where competition in an area between smoking and non-smoking pubs exists there is no movement for more pubs to take the no-smoking route suggests there is something radically wrong with your thinking.
Look at the Health and Safety at Work laws which do not impose a complete ban on smoking. Why can there be a compromise in that law which cannot be equally made in the case of pubs?