On 29/08/2011 19:30, ARWadsworth wrote:
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I find it very amusing. Non smokers always said how much they
hated pubs because of the smoke. Now they're all non smoking,
they're closing in droves...

So the predatory behaviour of brewers, discount alcohol from
supermarkets and the drink-drive laws have nothing to do with it?

You think these only started after the smoking ban? Have you tried
asking those publicans who's pubs have had to close?

They were interviewing publicans on BBC WM a couple of months ago
about the closing of pubs.
Half of them said the smoking ban had had a positive effect and they
now served more food and had families in.
the other half said they were going broke.
You can draw whatever conclusion you like.
I note that there are now far more places to go than pubs, like
smoke free restaurants, cinemas, etc.
Pubs that don't offer more than drinking look like dying pubs to me.
If you just want to drink then its a lot cheaper at home.

I can't see the point of a pub that doesn't do food.

Well you could get ****ed in it.

I go to my local for a better pint of ale than I can get anywhere else
and to catch up on what is going on in the village. The smokers are
happy to go outside and I only have to walk 150 yards home soberly
without endangering anyone else.