smoking and the pub - Page 104

smiffing · 05-07-2007, 00:35

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Originally Posted by Wicked_and_Crazy

Your should smell the Thai

Tomorrow will be worse.

pheeeeew.

Wicked_and_Crazy · 05-07-2007, 00:36

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Originally Posted by smiffing

Tomorrow will be worse.

pheeeeew.

errm im not waking up with her!!! JOKE!!

danielf · 05-07-2007, 00:53

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Originally Posted by Wicked_and_Crazy

Fantastic, just been for a few beers and a thai, and still smell as fresh as before i went out

No, you smell of beer and thai now

Osem · 05-07-2007, 11:16

Wonderful! After decades suffering other people's smoke we can now have a nice few drinks or a meal in a clean, smoke free environment!!!

There is a God after all

Xaccers · 05-07-2007, 11:55

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Originally Posted by Osem

Wonderful! After decades suffering other people's smoke we can now have a nice few drinks or a meal in a clean, smoke free environment!!!

There is a God after all

Yes, but he's upset too, what with being a smoker himself

(burning bush, fire and brimstone)

05-07-2007, 12:13

To listen to some you would think they have never had a smoke free pub to go to you have they have been around for years they were just never very full.

tweetypie/8 · 05-07-2007, 12:48

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Originally Posted by paulyoung666

if this really starts to bite dont complain if your taxes start going through the roof

1 of the biggest revenue earners for the govt may be going to go into decline , the result --------- all the other taxes will go up

and i have donned my nomex for the ineviatable flaming i will get for this , no worries i am fire proofed

i am a smoker and a boozer and there is no way i am going to stand b**l freezed outside a pup to have a smoke, the offlicence will get my trade as i am sure many others will follow suit

Osem · 05-07-2007, 12:53

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Originally Posted by RizzyKing

To listen to some you would think they have never had a smoke free pub to go to you have they have been around for years they were just never very full.

Really? Where? If there'd been a single non smoking pub, bar or restuarant around here we'd have been using it for the last 20 years. The best we could do was a small supposedly non-smoking section at the rear of a nearby Weatherspoon's pub. Problem was there was no separation from the smoke, inadequate ventilation and many smokers just ignored the signs - apart from that it was great.

05-07-2007, 12:59

I havn't been into a restaurant locally for about 3 years that allowed smoking and there have been for the last 2 years at least 2 pubs that were non smoking. They did exist and were available for non smokers before the ban if you couldn't find them that doesn't change the fact they existed.

TheDaddy · 05-07-2007, 13:33

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Originally Posted by RizzyKing

I havn't been into a restaurant locally for about 3 years that allowed smoking and there have been for the last 2 years at least 2 pubs that were non smoking. They did exist and were available for non smokers before the ban if you couldn't find them that doesn't change the fact they existed.

True Rizzy, I was listening to a publican on the radio crowing about his profits doubling since his premises went no smoking a few years back, he sounded a bit flummoxed when the presenter said they would probably go down now as all the other local pubs would be offering the same service

Osem · 05-07-2007, 13:46

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Originally Posted by RizzyKing

I havn't been into a restaurant locally for about 3 years that allowed smoking and there have been for the last 2 years at least 2 pubs that were non smoking. They did exist and were available for non smokers before the ban if you couldn't find them that doesn't change the fact they existed.

Well I wasn't denying their existence nationally but an entirely non smoking pub or restaurant miles away isn't much use to us. Of course we've been to places locally which have had non smoking sections but in our experience these have been almost useless for the reasons already mentioned.

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Originally Posted by TheDaddy

True Rizzy, I was listening to a publican on the radio crowing about his profits doubling since his premises went no smoking a few years back, he sounded a bit flummoxed when the presenter said they would probably go down now as all the other local pubs would be offering the same service

Well it's very early days yet but there's no sign of a drop in trade in our new smoke free local. Time will tell though.

TheDaddy · 05-07-2007, 13:49

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Originally Posted by Osem

Well I wasn't denying their existence nationally but an entirely non smoking pub or restaurant miles away isn't much use to us. Of course we've been to places locally which have had non smoking sections but in our experience these have been almost useless for the reasons already mentioned.

Didn't have a Wetherspoons near you, pity

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4201053.stm

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Originally Posted by Osem

Well it's very early days yet but there's no sign of a drop in trade in our new smoke free local. Time will tell though.

If there weren't any no smoking pubs in your area, how could their trade be affected now they all are

Osem · 05-07-2007, 13:54

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Originally Posted by TheDaddy

Didn't have a Wetherspoons near you, pity

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4201053.stm

I referred to our local Weatherspoons pub in my last but one post. I too heard that story some time ago and was delighted but it was inaccurate and our local only went smoke free on Sunday. IIRC there was some confusion in the statements issued by Weatherspoons and it turned out that only their pubs in London would be going smoke free at that time.

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Originally Posted by TheDaddy

Didn't have a Wetherspoons near you, pity

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4201053.stm

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If there weren't any no smoking pubs in your area, how could their trade be affected now they all are

I think we may be getting confused about non smoking pubs and pubs with non smoking areas. There were NO entirely non smoking pubs in this area but the one pub we used which did have a non smoking area doesn't seem to have lost trade since it went smoke free on Sunday. As I said though it's still early days.

05-07-2007, 13:56

So in order for you to have the convinience you wanted a large group of people had to have their rights removed well when you put it like that it was all worth it.

TheDaddy · 05-07-2007, 14:01

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Originally Posted by Osem

I referred to our local Weatherspoons pub in my last but one post. I too heard that story some time ago and was delighted but it was inaccurate and our local only went smoke free on Sunday. IIRC there was some confusion in the statements issued by Weatherspoons and it turned out that only their pubs in London would be going smoke free at that time.

Smoking will be banned in Wetherspoon pubs in London and other cities by this May 2005

Perhaps they left it up to the landlords in the end?

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Originally Posted by Osem

I think we may be getting confused about non smoking pubs and pubs with non smoking areas. There were NO entirely non smoking pubs in this area but the one pub we used which did have a non smoking area doesn't seem to have lost trade since it went smoke free on Sunday. As I said though it's still early days.

and you attached that to post about an already smoke free pub that had enjoyed huge profits up until Sunday due to it's unique status in the town, that pub no longer offers a unique service, so will quite possibly end up losing out due to the ban