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Thread #101817 Message #2091626
Posted By: McGrath of Harlow
01-Jul-07 - 12:00 PM
Thread Name: 42 days to no smoking (UK)
Subject: RE: 42 days to no smoking (UK)
If the pubs/breweries had taken the initiative, and if the smokers had been demanding facilities to allow them to smoke without getting up other people's noses, the legislation might have been different. But they didn't and they weren't. They were perfectly willing to continue with the existing arrangements.
When it came to the point the only choices on offer were to do nothing and so continue to discriminate against the large majority of people who don't like smoke with their drinks, a daft "compromise" ban that would have meant that all pubs that didn't serve food would have continued to be no-go areas for people who couldn't take smoky environments - or a total ban.
Not surprisingly the total ban won out.