It would have been much easier just to let the Landlord decide on the smoking debacle. Either he wants a smoking pub, or he wants a non smoking pub, the smokers and non smokers can then decide on which type of pub to visit.

But I forgot, that would have been too easy to leave it to the individual to make his/her mindup, better the nanny state to tell us what to do. I am a nonsmoker, but would still visit a smoking pub, its down to individual choice, or it should be.

If smoking is such a threat to all our lives, why not ban it, end of story, oh I forgot the Government takes hundreds of millions in tax off the smokers, what a shower of double standard b@st@rds they are.