UK pub smokers take a hit

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Pub smoking ban in UK strikes the opposition.
I'm trying to picture JRR Tolkien, CS Lewis and the other "Inklings" sitting down their pints to go have a bowl under the lampost on the street outside The Eagle & Child pub.

 

[fredvegas]

I'm sure it's been posted before, but this is as good a time as any...

 

[admin]

That's a great ad FV. I don't think it's been posted here and you beat me to it. I have a copy that I was going to scan and put up.

 

[fredvegas]

It's kind of a funny picture, for a couple of reasons. The first is that Roosevelt couldn't have "stood" for it, even if he wanted to. The second is that in this picture, they're already outside. Note the coats.

 

[bjeorn]

fantastic, i no longer go to pubs simply because i cannot smoke and secondly the price of a descent pint of mans bitter is too expensive

 

[excav8tor]

I don't tend to go to pubs much these days either. Just now and again.
I have problems with unwillingly having to donate over 50% of the price of a pint to the government and then have to go outside in the cold to have a smoke and then give another 83% to the government for my tobacco. Not only that having all the non-smoking punters pushing past me looking as if I have just pee'd on their shoes.
In my local pub, 3 pints of bitter = 1 x 50g pack of Condor. So, If I go out have 3 pints and 2 bowls I have spent £10 of which £5.33 goes straight to the tax man, and I also get frosbite or soaking wet for my trouble. To cap it all I when I open my tobacco pouch I get met with a patronising health warning, telling me of the risks involved in smoking by the very government that is fleecing me.

 

[pstlpkr]

I don't do the Bar Scene anymore either.

I have a bottle of Gin, bottle of Vermouth... and an ice maker.

Oh yeah.... olives.