Well I'm sorry to hear of a good venue in peril. No I don't think the smoking ban has made it happen either. Betsy's rant above reminds me of so many recent government knee jerk ill thought out laws, but you still can't blame the non smoking laws.
The overcharging and greedy breweries sounds a more plausible explanation.
However as far as I'm concerned it's definitely the price of beer, and the price of fuel, and even if pubs reduced their prices to supermarket levels, people still need to get there.


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