skipy - Sorry but your argument IS inconsistant. You insist, as on this thread, that banning smoking in pubs is damaging to pub business. You insist that the landlords should have the right to choose whether the pubs are smoking or not. You insist that non smokers have as much right to fresh air as you have to smoke. Yes? So far so good? OK - Explain this to me then. If not allowing smoking is bad for business so which landlord in thier right mind is going to ban it? All pubs will therefore allow smoking. Where, then, can the non-smokers go for a drink in a pub? See the problem?

Having smoking and non-smoking rooms just doesn't work - we know that from experience - the smoke gets everywhere. Segregation cannot work - ie some pubs smoking and some not because no-one will decide which is which and somewhere down the line it will be classed as discrimination that some people can only go in some pubs. Just use some of that reasoning that you seem to have got back recently and come up with a sensible solution. Until then, yes, I will fail to grasp wher you are coming from. You are making no sense!

Cheers

Dave