Clearing The Air

U.K. operator to close down 22 pubs due to business decline from smoking ban

Online article is found here:

Chief executive Paul Symonds e-mailed managers at the start of this week to say that the smoking ban.......had affected the business.

“We have some leasehold pubs on the wet-led side that with the smoking ban are not performing well.”

The closure of 22 sites is being referred to internally as a “structured shutdown”.

There is not one instance, where smoking bans have increased the number of hospitality establishments. The facts remain........smoking bans eliminate jobs and businesses wherever they are enacted.

posted by marcus aurelius @ 7:54 PM