As a lifelong non smoker I feel that pubs should regulate themselves. One thing I do know aa a lifelong drinker of 50 years is that non smokers in pubs are in the minority. If pubs had to rely on the supporter of the non smokers they will go bankrupt in no time. The staff question concerning the inhalation of smoke to me appears a stupid one, there are hundreds of job, if not thousands in mining of all sorts and the civil engineering and building industries where jobs are just as dangerous, so dont work in a bar if it concerns you. Landlords are having a bad enough time of it with taxes and entertainment licences so dont need any government to put an extra burden on them
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