"Why not ban drinking ... and sex?"
"Yes, technically I can see that you could argue that smoking in a pub could kill someone but that doesn't mean the Government has the right to kill off an English tradition," says Caroline Povey, 25, who will smoke 10 cigarettes before the night is out as she unwinds from a hard working week.
Alasdair Voisey, 30, a salesman, says: "It has to be down to the landlord, not central government, whether it's a non-smoking pub. I, for one, definitely would not go into a pub where I could not smoke. I like a smoke with a meal as well, so the policy about non-smoking in pubs serving food doesn't work for me either."
John Ramsden, another smoker, says: "There are some pubs where you can only smoke at the bar and maybe it's the landlord's right to decide that. But if the Government is going to stop us from smoking, why not just ban drinking - and sex, while we're at it?"
Source: Independent (12 November 2005)
posted by Simon Clark @ 10:07
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A recent poll in Manchester City centre, as revealed by a local paper, said that 50% of the pubs polled would continue to have smoking and no food and (more importantly) 23% of pubs who currently serve food would stop serving food to encourage smokers into the premises.
Also something I heard (unsubstantiated) that it costs the NHS more dealing with obesity related medical problems than all the smoking related problems put together.
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