Pubs remain unhappy with smoking ban

PUB landlords are still reeling from the smoking ban two years after it was introduced, according to one.

Hampshire Lodge Hotel licensee Peter Leigh (pictured) said businesses like his had been hit hard. ‘It was total rubbish that the pubs would see an increase in non-smokers coming in,’ he said.

‘The ban was bound to happen eventually, but I still feel the polls done before were completely biased and didn’t show the correct figures. What’s not realised is that people are now having to go home to smoke which means they are drinking unsociable, bigger measures and possibly getting drunk in front of their kids.’

But Health and Social Services minister Hunter Adam sees the ban in a different light. ‘It was implemented on medical grounds. I was supportive two years ago and I am happy with the way it is going,’ he said. ‘Pubs were cautious due to worries of a downturn in trade but most have been lucky enough to provide suitable outdoor arrangements.’ (from thisisguernsey)

I do enjoy the fact of going into a pub and not coming out smelling of smoke, but I do have some sympathy for the licensee's that have certainly have lost a lot of business because of the smoking ban

Of course there is a slight loss of business because of the Smoking Ban but 95% of those I talk to (including the smokers) say their night out is nmore pleasant without the smoking,

Only time will tell and you cant expect a habit of a liftime to be squashed in a couple of years but eventually it will all be forgotten that they used to smoke in pubs at all.

you are so right and the same will be said decades along that people will forget that once we had pubs....