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The north has finally been brought to follow us! I spent a bit of time in a South Armagh pub recently and it was the worst thing since sliced pan. So happy days. Only issue is that it will take 2 years... why sure our legislation got through a good bit quicker than that.
I wonder will the DUP go against it claiming that the north is following the south and that they should do what the whole UK does!
Richard Bruton in his budget speech:" Homer Simpson:“making promises makes me a good father”. Lisa:“keeping promises is what would make you a good father”. "
England is looking like it might go this way as well. I've already seen representatives from publican groups on the news explaining how they are against this because it infringes the civil liberties of their customers. The customers! Won't someone think of the customers!
Nothing to do with their profits... No.
I wonder if they will try the line about being able to have properly seperated smoking and non-smoking area, if only they had been given the chance. That rang pretty hollow here since they clearly had the chance for the last couple of decades. It will sound even worse in the UK since they must have at least suspected it was possible that a move would be made to ban smoking over there.
Anyone know what kind of effect it has had on publican's profits down South? The 60,000 redundancies the Vitners Federation talked about don't seem to have materialised but have they lost much money?
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/3621386.stm
Diageo says Guinness sales are down 6% in Ireland.
Yeah, I didn't go out this weekend, that probably accounts for it.Originally Posted by hivemind
"Partout où la liberté règne elle est incessamment attaquée et très souvent en péril” – Jean Jacques Rousseau.
There has probably been a reduction but sure isn't it diageo that say for us to "drink sensibly"....
Anyway, you would have expected that people would cross the border- but there hasn't been any kick up about this at all. At least that issue will be put to bed when the North comes on board.
Richard Bruton in his budget speech:" Homer Simpson:“making promises makes me a good father”. Lisa:“keeping promises is what would make you a good father”. "
Good!
I am a smoker (20+ a day) and I dont feel I have the right to poison others. Its that simple. Publicans are in my opinion, one step above telemarketers in the scheme of things and the sooner the industry is deregulated the better.
If I could mass-sterilise the planet, I would. Seriously.
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Surely you know that this ban is nothing more than a Papal plot to deprive honest hardworking Protestant tobacco barons of their money!
Fair play to you.
Most smokers I know don't mind the ban much, in fact only one of them feels his rights have been infringed. A significant number like the ban since they want to smoke less but found it very hard not to smoke continuously when out on the drink.
There's no reason why they couldn't have opted for ventilated smoking areas. They will not succeed in enforcing their ban.
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