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Originally posted by Yorick:
In other English speaking countries, a bar is known as a pub. A PUBLIC BAR as opposed to a clubs private bar for members only.
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In the interests of pedantry, I'll point out that in England, bars are indeed referred to as pubs - standing for
public house. I know that doesn't contribute anything much, and is exceptionally picky, but hey - that's me.
And on the whole issue of smoking around children - I have heard arguments for and against being able to smoke around your kids, but what about pregnant mothers? I mean, their whole argument for abortion rights is based around "It's my body", but does anyone actually defend making pregnant women inhale smoke that has been medically proven to injure the child in the womb if inhaled by the mother? Anyway, that's a bit OT, so don't answer it
Seeing the kids/ill health/smoking stuff just made it pop into my mind.
And to answer another point, I'm sure I saw on the BBC news that new, exclusively non-smoking bars have been opened in England, and are proving to be amazingly successful. It seems that, at least in this country, drinkers wishing to imbibe and not inhale (
) do indeed outweigh those wishing to smoke, which seems to counter a point made by someone (Mordheim? Apologies if mistaken) a page or two back.