Having a smoking area and a non smoking area next to each other is a bit like having the gents urinals draining directly into the public swimming pool. No matter what you do you will get some smoke in the no smoking area. The grey smelly stuff can neither read nor stop at imaginary boundries. If for one minute you believe that either the private landlords or the big breweries would spend many thousands of pounds installing proper ventilation to ensure that this would not happen you are deluding yourself, skipy. They nevr have before, they will not start overnight. Given the choice of running pub with a no-cost smoking 'ban' or being forced to spend megabucks, what choice do you think most people would make?

Did you ever ask your landlords what they had ever done to safeguard their non-smoking customers and staff btw? You said you would but never got back. I guessed that the answer would be either very little or bugger all!

Cheers

Dave