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Article: British bid to ban smoking leaves pub owners fuming
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- October 28, 2005
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HATFIELD HEATH, England -- The government intends to give
England's pub managers an unappetizing choice: ban smoking or stop
serving food.
"Many pubs, particularly the isolated ones with no passing trade
who rely on local people, are going to see their income drop," said
landlord Ben Millard, as he poured drinks Thursday in the smoking
section of his newly revamped 17th-century pub, the White Horse.
Down the road at the Stag, landlord Stuart Allen has just started
serving food after remodeling his kitchen at great expense. But 95
percent of his regulars are smokers, and he is considering converting
an old forge into a smoking room. "It's either that, or make no
profit," he ...