There are reports in the papers this week about a couple in Norfolk who have been fined a total of £8000 for defying the smoking ban, and the story of the guy in Blackpool doing the same thing is well documented.
I kind of admire this. I’m not a smoker and am personally glad to have the pubs smoke free, but there is something noble about such stoicly futile resistance to change.
We’ve seen it before, think about old ladies being unable or unwilling to pay their council tax, and it only ends in a couple of ways; both of which are not great results for the person fighting what they see as the good fight.
For both these sets of people, the ultimate answer will be prison or bankruptcy; possibly both. That’s a hell of a price to pay for having people light up in your pub rather than just outside.
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Smokers’ Last Stand?
There are reports in the papers this week about a couple in Norfolk who have been fined a total of £8000 for defying the smoking ban, and the story of the guy in Blackpool doing the same thing is well documented.
I kind of admire this. I’m not a smoker and am personally glad to have the pubs smoke free, but there is something noble about such stoicly futile resistance to change.
We’ve seen it before, think about old ladies being unable or unwilling to pay their council tax, and it only ends in a couple of ways; both of which are not great results for the person fighting what they see as the good fight.
For both these sets of people, the ultimate answer will be prison or bankruptcy; possibly both. That’s a hell of a price to pay for having people light up in your pub rather than just outside.
This entry was posted on Monday, July 14th, 2008 at 8:09 pm and is filed under General, News & Comment. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.