Pub Profits Slump After Smoking Ban

[lard]

Yes indeed, there are some who have stopped going out because of the ban.

 

They are the cases for whom there is no hope anyway

 

So gone are the haggard and craggy, grey skinned 'characters' - now coughing and

Phlegming their way in their own pitiful hovels

Where once they inhabited the 'Traditional Pub'

 

Now they are gone and got rid, that sort o' 'character' in the Traditional Pub. Thank fuck.

[matty]

It says "an 11% drop in drink sales since lighting up was outlawed." It doesn't mention profits. The same thing happened in Ireland but the sale of pub food substantially increased and as a result profits went up overall. There is not a single poor publican in Ireland. The Irish VA came out with all those "smoking killing the trade" facts and they've been proved wrong.

 

Perhaps the Govt sponsored TV adverts urging Scots to reduce their alcohol consumption has played a part in the decrease?

Perhaps the crackdown on drink driving?

Perhaps the fact that more and more people socialise at each others homes?

Perhaps the fact that people are realising that drinks in pubs are far too expensive and that a trip to Tesco gets you more value for money?

 

 

Yes indeed, there are some who have stopped going out because of the ban.

 

They are the cases for whom there is no hope anyway

 

So gone are the haggard and craggy, grey skinned 'characters' - now coughing and

Phlegming their way in their own pitiful hovels

Where once they inhabited the 'Traditional Pub'

 

Now they are gone and got rid, that sort o' 'character' in the Traditional Pub. Thank fuck.

 

 

Bring back the traditional pub - can't beat it, screw all these new "eateries" catering for kids and wino's, instead of a good old smoky boozer with old men and their dogs, and a bit of life & character!!!!

 

Yes many of the "traditional" pubs have been closeing in Ireland - maybe a "victory" for the non-smokers, but the non smoking ninnies will also have to accept that they are responsible for many closures of traditional pubs (community centers!), more drinking at home, and an increase in domestic violence! - Great!!!!

 

- Why not have a smoking bar in a pub, and a non-smoking bar?

 

Or is this too liberal an idea for the anti-smoking fascists.

[Theskeat]

 

Well amazingly enough my Mother's family are Irish and I go there fairly regular to both Dublin and Cork.

There is no way the pubs are the same as they were.

The hallmark small friendly Irish pubs are disappearing apace and the bigger ones are transforming into sterile eating houses. There are still plenty of noisy shit holes catering for the "youth" market but that aint traditional Irish pubs.

Things have changed. Some think for the better some think for the worst.

 

 

Yeah but, yeah but, yeah but you could say that about anywhere couldn't you.

 

Let's try Douglas. In the last ten years.

 

The Oban? Nowhere better for a Sunday after hours pint. Gone.

 

The Britannia? I bet there are no more than a handful of people on this forum ever been in there. But it's gone.

 

OK, the Glencoe - best pub ever at TT/MGP time. Gone.

 

The Douglas - a real pub with character? Well no, not at all but let's pretend it was. Gone.

 

The Central, my very own local! Gone.

 

The Beach. Gone.

 

OK then, the Forresters. We all knew that one. Gone.

 

And of course Bushy's. Gone.

 

And do you know why? Because of the smoking ban. Blame everything on the smoking ban. This place is getting more like Russia every day the smookers say.

 

So, all this crap about Ireland's pubs going down the swanney - ever heard of the Celtic Tiger?

 

Educated people in the 21st century don't want to socialise in shitnae more.

 

 

The Britania Hotel, bloody hell I know it well, kept old Frank up many a night