The UK Smoking Ban

mcmanus said:
stonerblue said:
Smoking does not equal harm and i have a healthy 74yr old mother and 77 year old father to prove it.

I love the way that all the local pubs are now thriving since the ban. All those non-smokers who now go to the pub in their droves have really boosted trade and it's great to see all those people working in the trade making a nice living and providing employment in the community isn't it?
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In my local 4 of the main 5 barstaff were smokers and the non smoker was so chuffed the ban was coming in. However within 3 months it was clear trade was seriously down with the cold weather coming aswell. Hours were cut. Then just after Christmas hols 2 were let go for good including the non smoker (top girl). Not sure about me local's future with 4 other pubs in the area shut since the ban.

As I said in my OP I don't mind going outdoors really. But I like having mates round at mine or vice versa for few tinnies and realised double quick it costs about a third.

I tend to think each ebstablishment should have the choice. Only my opinion.
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And my opinion is pretty much the same. I'm off for a pint now, and i'll find the barmaid outside having a fag with all her customers bar a couple.
 
Yep stoner, too true bargirl outside having a cig and you know who will be tutting about having to wait 2 mins for service? The non smokers who wanted the ban in the first fucking place.

Then they say can she not wait for a few hours to have a cig. To which I always reply can you not wait 2 mins for a beer.
 
From my point of view it's better cos I have asthma and I can go out without having a coughing fit. I also come home without smelling like an ashtray. I lost my Dad to lung cancer which was not a nice thing to watch. He was a smoker who gave up later in life but he continued to meet his smoking mates in the pub. The smoking ban came in after he died.

However, I can understand the frustration of the smokers and there has got to be another way of doing it. Just don't know what.

Pubs cannot blame lack of business on the smoking ban, the variation in prices in different pubs is absolutely ridiculous.
 
Bluebird1 said:
From my point of view it's better cos I have asthma and I can go out without having a coughing fit. I also come home without smelling like an ashtray. I lost my Dad to lung cancer which was not a nice thing to watch. He was a smoker who gave up later in life but he continued to meet his smoking mates in the pub. The smoking ban came in after he died.

However, I can understand the frustration of the smokers and there has got to be another way of doing it. Just don't know what.

Pubs cannot blame lack of business on the smoking ban, the variation in prices in different pubs is absolutely ridiculous.
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I think you might find a correlation to pubs and bingo halls closing and the introduction of the smoking ban.
 
As others have said, for pubs it should be entirely voluntary. I'm an ex-smoker but I do have to say that the smoking ban was just another nail in the tradition of the old style boozer which served proper beer, the food was just some nuts on the bar & there were no little shits running around to ruin your ale time.
 
Tap room for smoking and lounge smoke free.

Its hardly fucking rocket science is it.

Everyone then has a choice including staff.
 
I am a heavy smoker. I thought the ban was wrong at the time and have paid the price. We have another thread running at the moment "whats your Local?"

I haven't got one; it went out of business.
 
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