I'm a non-smoker, and on the surface I love the idea of people not smoking around me when I am; In a pub, at a cafe, at a football game etc...
Then I went to Ireland this summer, and my opinion changed.
It was great once you got into the pub and could enjoy a pint in smoke-free air, the trouble was getting into the pub in the first place. At nearly every pub I went to in the 17 days I was there, and I went to a lot BTW (all in all I drank 59 pints of Guinness in 17 days) there was a phalanx of gruff looking smokers loitering around the front door. In addition to the smokers themselves, there was of course a pile of stinky cigarette butts on the sidewalks. All Ireland has managed to do by outlawing smoking in workplaces is push the problem on to the street. So now instead of there being smokers inside your pub, there's a group of people standing around outside your pub scaring off customers. I don't think it was a good trade.
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