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Smoking Ban - Again
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I went to the pub this lunchtime with three colleagues who enjoy a cigarette now and again - they were looking forward to a pint and a puff in the beer garden in the sun.
The pub was empty, but as you can imagine the beer garden was full: of the eight full tables in the beer garden at least half of them were completely occupied by non-smokers.
Now, even as a non-smoker, I thought this was completely unfair.
As smokers have been banished from inside, surely it is only fair that they take precedence over the non-smokers for the outside tables, even if the weather is glorious like today.
That's fair isn't it?
Those of us that choose not to smoke can't have it both ways.
I'd advocate signs along the lines of 'You must give up this table if a smoker requires it'
The pub was empty, but as you can imagine the beer garden was full: of the eight full tables in the beer garden at least half of them were completely occupied by non-smokers.
Now, even as a non-smoker, I thought this was completely unfair.
As smokers have been banished from inside, surely it is only fair that they take precedence over the non-smokers for the outside tables, even if the weather is glorious like today.
That's fair isn't it?
Those of us that choose not to smoke can't have it both ways.
I'd advocate signs along the lines of 'You must give up this table if a smoker requires it'
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but smokers are allowed inside the pub...should they not be allowed to sit down if a non smoker wants the seat during the winter?
beer gardens haven't just appeared...they have been there a long time and are for everyone - smokers cannot just 'claim' a communal area just because they need to use it more often than they used to!
what a ridiculous idea!
beer gardens haven't just appeared...they have been there a long time and are for everyone - smokers cannot just 'claim' a communal area just because they need to use it more often than they used to!
what a ridiculous idea!
All the coolest people smoke. I for one am cool enough not to get flustered by having to stand in the beer garden until there's a seat. Besides which, if there's a group of you and you join up with a table, they're hardly likely to pounce on you for sparking up as a group. Just tell them if they don't like it they have the choice to go inside with the rest of the uncool people.