Marmora Man Wrote: > Choosing to smoke is fine, but imposing your smoke > on me in a public place isn't. My choice to drink > whisky and beer in the same public place is a free > choice - but if I get drunk and obnoxious then I'm > impacting on you and would expect to be thrown out > and perhaps barred in future. Sadly when you (generally) are in such a state you are no longer capable of noticing the impact you are having on people. And these people don't necessarily have the choice to avoid you where you avoid smoking places. I think pubs/nightclubs should be able to have the choice whether they permit smoking inside. I doubt it would effect trading overlly. You could have two pubs next to each other, one smoking, the other not which would be full of each side. Keeping smokers outside is terrible. Not only for them but for neighbouring residents having to put up with mass clouds of smoke drifting on the wind. For pubs that don't have outside space anyone entering the estashblishment has to walk through a cloud of smoke and often rowdy drinkers - not always a thrill! Also, the cigarette butts being flicked or stubbed everywhere but the silly "extinguishing" guard things attached to the wall. I remember being in Dublin, before the ban was enforced over here, in a hotel there was a wedding reception being held at the same hotel I was at which obviously went on late into the night. With everyone going "out back" to have a smoke drove the smoke everywhere throughout the hotel. You couldnt get away from it. If the place allowed smoking I probably would have escaped a smelly nights sleep. *shrugs*