Thread: smoking and the pub
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Old 04-11-2005, 10:25   #1090
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Re: smoking and the pub
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Originally Posted by Chris T
Turning that on its head ... are you saying you like your pubs not only smoky, alcohol soaked, child-free and hard-drinking, but also withwith threatening music?
Hey, that's my local you've just described

It is interesting to note that as yet nobody has commented on the cultural impact of the ban that I posted earlier http://www.sundayherald.com/46058

I was trying to move away from discussing the ban from specifically within a discourse of risk: risk to health, risk to landlords business, risk to increased taxes, risk to mental health, risk of losing choice, etc. etc. And to look at other examples and how the ban has affected them. But it appears that as other threads show (I'm thinking of the Express headlines one specifically), that the culture of fear and risk that we seem to live is what people want to discuss. Which only serves to construct and perpetuate much of that fear. Maybe.
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