Ugh, this.
I personally think that they should have gone with the option where pubs that serve food would have to be non-smoking (at least during service hours), but you could still smoke in wet-only pubs. That would have given landlords and customers a choice, at least.
(BelladonnaAnodyne Melissa's gonna wet herself, I swear..., Wed 9 Mar 2011, 9:59, 2 replies, latest was 15 years ago)

the smell of smoking is vile
and smokers have no idea how they smell and taste to non-smokers - even after a bath, a shower and a tooth-clean, they STILL smell like fags. but some people smell even worse, how bad does your personal hygiene have to be to reek out an entire pub??
( rachelswipe with a fork, Wed 9 Mar 2011, 10:02, Reply)

I've seen it happen.

(BelladonnaAnodyne Melissa's gonna wet herself, I swear..., Wed 9 Mar 2011, 10:04, Reply)

yeah, should have been a choice
"Call me Dave" is trying to reduce numbers of smokers by hiding cigarettes in shops and putting them in plain packets now. I really don't understand why anyone would think that would work.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 9 Mar 2011, 10:02, Reply)

Yeah, I'm struggling to see how anyone
would walk into a shop and not buy cigs because they couldn't see them. I don't believe anyone's randomly decided to take up smoking because the packaging was so damn alluring.
(BelladonnaAnodyne Melissa's gonna wet herself, I swear..., Wed 9 Mar 2011, 10:05, Reply)

exactly that
it's just completely nonsensical. One of those things that makes you do a mental double-take
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 9 Mar 2011, 10:06, Reply)

I don't even think most people's first experience of smoking actually involves buying a packet of fags first
Peer pressure, innit?
(BelladonnaAnodyne Melissa's gonna wet herself, I swear..., Wed 9 Mar 2011, 10:08, Reply)

one of my rules is "Always give in to peer pressure"

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 9 Mar 2011, 10:10, Reply)

You are Jim Jones AICMFP.

(BelladonnaAnodyne Melissa's gonna wet herself, I swear..., Wed 9 Mar 2011, 10:14, Reply)

By the way, just read this:
www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/society/tories-to-treat-you-like-children-too-201103093607/
(BelladonnaAnodyne Melissa's gonna wet herself, I swear..., Wed 9 Mar 2011, 10:25, Reply)