"people have worked down mines and in dangerous locations for centuries"

And you'll notice that, especially in the last 50 or so years, safety has become a MAJOR issue... Because now people know better than to not "give a shite"

It's not the 'poor buggers' with their 'pint and a puff' that concerns me... It's the barstaff who are made to work in an environment with air that'd knock a buzzard of a sh!t-wagon... That's who this law is intended to help...