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2014-01-22 Britain

The smoking ban killed the British pub. This vandalism is Labour's defining legacy

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Posted by Fred 2014-01-22 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

Posted by Besoeker 2014-01-22 03:59|| 2014-01-22 03:59|| Front Page Top

#2 Well, Islamic nation doesn't needs pubs.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2014-01-22 05:11|| 2014-01-22 05:11|| Front Page Top

#3 The local trick Americans came up with was to redefine the 'bar' as a 'members club', paying one or ten dollars for a year or lifetime membership. As a private club, the establishment was no longer 'public' and subject to most of the local anti-smoking regs any more than a home. Keeping the kids out also took that nanny state means of intrusion into the joint as well.

Posted by Procopius2k 2014-01-22 09:00|| 2014-01-22 09:00|| Front Page Top

#4 Why is it that if a liberal doesn't want to smoke then everyone has to not smoke?

Posted by JohnQC 2014-01-22 11:08|| 2014-01-22 11:08|| Front Page Top

#5 Because they are better/smarter than the rest of us.

Posted by Bobby 2014-01-22 13:28|| 2014-01-22 13:28|| Front Page Top

#6 If you're in a pub in Colorado you can't smoke tobacco but you can smoke a joint...

Posted by Steve White 2014-01-22 14:35|| 2014-01-22 14:35|| Front Page Top

#7 California's first year of no in bar smoking resulted in an average of 20% lost employees income. Those bars that could, opened outside seating to beat the law and keep the customers.

Posted by Mugsy Glink 2014-01-22 17:31|| 2014-01-22 17:31|| Front Page Top

#8 >And it is not as if something else has come along to bring communities together.

It's like that was part of the plan...
Dissent spreads in pubs as people realise "it's not just them that's fed-up".

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2014-01-22 19:15|| 2014-01-22 19:15|| Front Page Top

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