It's been a nightmare here in Scotland, I've NEVER been to the pub just for a drink since it began, has to be out for a meal and even then I've only been twice or three times and I feel like cracking up.... my mates come here, or I go to their house... with a carry out meal and a million bottles of wine, just as much fun and saves standing outside like a happy hooker.
The pub landlords are bitching, the taxi drivers are whining to the extent its a miracle to be able to get a taxi on a sunday now (which used to be a good day out) because apparently most people think along the same lines as me. Not worth their while running them....
A brand new multi million pound bingo complex has shut down because apparently they used to make most of their profit from 'party games' being run in the intervals.... now everyone who still attends, run outside to chainsmoke AND LITTER the street with butts before the next bingo game starts. Walk along a pavement and you're dodging people standing smoking, the streets are a total mess, imagine the over flowing ashtrays at 2am in the morning?
Tis a nightmare! It hasnt stopped all but a few people smoking, if anything people smoke more in the house and a pub measure compared to a heavy handed 'home measure' hasnt done much to ensure that people drink less either.
Make of it what you will, I still say the way to go would have been to have smoking AND non smoking pubs. I await Englands transition with baited breath.... full of fag reek
