• Smoking in pubs news as reported by Scotland on Sunday

    From Craig Cockburn@21:1/5 to Tim Oldham on Sat Dec 5 10:02:36 2020
    On Wednesday, 14 November 1990 at 12:09:06 UTC, Tim Oldham wrote:
    In article <1990Nov1...@craigy.enet.dec.com> cock...@marvin.enet.dec.com writes:
    The Maltman in Renfield Street pursued a no-smoking policy
    for a year and a half in one of its three bars. Hardly anyone came.
    So MacInnes reversed the no-smoking policy last year.
    Within a month business was up by 60%.
    Hah! Market forces win over health fascist minority bastard no-hoper killjoy loners!
    I suppose you're the sort of person who'd refuse to bring back the
    duty-frees after a trip abroad. Roll on 1992, uniform taxes and cheap French cigarettes! A blue haze in every pub in the land.
    100 Gauloise, please, and a big box of matches. Oh, and mine's a pint.
    Tim. Hit tab.
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    Tim Oldham, BT Applied Systems. t...@its.bt.co.uk or ...uunet!ukc!its!tjo Well, you'd have a corporate siege mentality, too.

    Tim.

    How did it work out for you?

    Craig.

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