HAS THE SMOKING BAN RUINED BRITISH PUBS ?

Course not. Non-smokers can now drink and go home without needing to have all their clothes dry-cleaned.

Well i don't smoke unless i am out having a drink and then for some reason i NEED a ***.

Anyway, i also worked in a pub when the smoking ban came into force and everyone kicked up a stink about it (me included) but now i prefer it because i come home and all my clothes don't stink of stale cigarette smoke and the pubs aren't too smokey and no ash trays getting spilt all over my new white skinny jeans lol!

It hasn't made any difference to the pub trade as the pub is just as busy as it was before.

In my professional opinion, I would say certain venues have not been hit as hard as others due to varied outside areas, venues with good outside facilities tend to be doing better takings than venues without. You also have to take on board other factors as well, like service / standards / atmosphere etc. Local pubs that have closed down are mostly due to tax increases, rent increases, cost of living, the increased government pressure of "binge drinking" and the recession. Bar and Club budgets did not increase which shows you that people were expecting bar trade to level out rather than improve on YOY sales. I myself now tend stay home and have a few drinks with mates then at 11 hit the clubs missing out most bars. I think the smoking ban has achieved something... its pissed me off, Smoking is a past-time in pubs and bars to take that away because everybodys now health concious is a joke, people have been binge drinking and smoking for well over 100 years the fact that millions of tax payers money have gone into surveys in the last couple of years to discover this and now blame it on the youth of today is a crock of ****...

Since the ban I have seen a lot of Pubs close, but have yet to see a new one open

I think it has not ruined british pubs has its much nicer to go into a pub for a drink and have a meal inside the pub without having to put up with someone elses smoking fumes,it makes a much healthier place to be.I agree that people are entitled to enjoy themselves but they really don`t need to blow smoke into other peoples faces which is now called passive smoking which can cause life threatening cancer.

I'm not sure, smokers seem to be resigned to the fact that they've got to go outside for a ***.

Now that the hoo-haa is over, everybody just seems to be getting on with it.

I think the extortionate price of a pint is the real killer of the pub trade.

I don't smoke but i used to love going to the pub and smelling the smoke. It added to the atmosphere in my opinion!

no and it has of course brought out the idea of people sitting out more and enjoying the night, of course when the weather is bad it helps if they have canopies and the such like!

its made things a lot better i think :D

y e s s, for s u r e.