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Originally Posted by TomPhil
What you mean is that you are a lifelong involuntary smoker. Like me, you made the decision that you did not want to engage in the activity of smoking, for whatever reason, but now, through no choice of your own, you are forced to inhale those fumes anyway. It seems odd to me that, having decided not to smoke, you now support the "rights" of others to force you to do just that.
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But that is my choice. To inhale or not to inhale, my choice. So as I have a choice then so should the landlord, its his establishment after all, his business. If you dont want to use his smokey environment, then dont. I'm quite sure he, as a business man has weighed up the pro's and con's of the situation and decided that smokers spend more in his pub than nonsmokers. As a non smoker I have seen the "new trade" drinking their half of bitter and their good ladies downing a bitter lemon and talking about how wonderfull it is now the "government" has cleaned up the pubs for them, while ten smokers clutching their pints huddle together under a canvas out the back getting their kicks from nicotine. Some landlords had already set up no smoking bars and area's for non smokers but thats not enough is it. No you whining anti smoker brigade wont be happy untill the pubs have all been forced to shut for lack of trade. I've seen this kind of carry on in villages where the pub, because of lack of trade has been forced to close, then all of a sudden from out of the blue comes the "support our pub brigade", where were these people when the pub was gasping for trade. No the smokers over the years have kept the licencing trade afloat, and now people like you want to kill the trade completely.