Like many other things in life, I believe that people should have a choice.
Sadly there seems to be no way to provide that choice.
I frequent the local JD Wetherspoons, a purpose-built pub building constructed for the company when it had a ventilated zones policy (it now has a non-smoking policy on all new pubs). I assume therefore that the non-smoking ventilated area was designated from the earliest stages and is as good or better than anything that can be retrofitted. There is an entrance straight into this area and the toliets are non-smoking (and accessed through the non-smoking area). Generally speaking only one of us will go to the bar to order during any visit. Despite all this, and the fact our visits are generally for breakfast at about 10 on a Saturday, rather than a really smokey time later, we still end up smelling of smoke for the rest of the day.
Unless you've got any brighter ideas, choice is simply not a possibility and I, as someone who doesn't like smalling of smoke, therefore comes down on the side of a total ban.
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Sadly there seems to be no way to provide that choice.
I frequent the local JD Wetherspoons, a purpose-built pub building constructed for the company when it had a ventilated zones policy (it now has a non-smoking policy on all new pubs). I assume therefore that the non-smoking ventilated area was designated from the earliest stages and is as good or better than anything that can be retrofitted. There is an entrance straight into this area and the toliets are non-smoking (and accessed through the non-smoking area). Generally speaking only one of us will go to the bar to order during any visit. Despite all this, and the fact our visits are generally for breakfast at about 10 on a Saturday, rather than a really smokey time later, we still end up smelling of smoke for the rest of the day.
Unless you've got any brighter ideas, choice is simply not a possibility and I, as someone who doesn't like smalling of smoke, therefore comes down on the side of a total ban.