Pub becomes 'smoking research centre' to allow indoor smoking

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A legal loophole has made it possible for landlady Kerry Fenton to allow smoking inside her pub in Barnsley.

One of her customers studied the fine print of The Smoke-Free (Exemptions and Vehicles) Regulations 2007 and worked out that a 'smoking research centre' could be introduced if the building has a separate room and no through bar. Customers would be allowed to smoke in the room after filling in a research questionnaire about their smoking habits.

Fenton gave the smoking room the go ahead and within five days customer numbers had quadrupled. She just asks smokers to put 50p in a charity box for a donation to cancer research.

The pub's secret is out, however, and authorities are likely to try and close the loophole and end the pub's evasion of the ban.
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4 comments // Pub becomes 'smoking research centre' to allow indoor smoking

  • matlaroche
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      matlaroche  

    • i walked into a smoking shop in soho last week and they were puffing away on cigars like they were going out of fashion!
      is that wrong?
      is that right?
      does doing illegal things make you feel sexy?

    • 10 months ago
  • Abstractics
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  • petermarshall
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      petermarshall  

    • But going down the pub has become so much more of a pleasure since smoking was banned. I just wish there was a law against loud music and TV screens too.

      Not that I'm particularly against smoking, loud music or watching tv, but usually when I go down the pub I want to talk to people and enjoy their company (and drink a pint or two) and these things all detract from that.

      As a long-term reformed ex-smoker (I gave it up when I was 21, many years ago) I still sometimes get a little enjoyment out of a few minutes of secondary smoking, but its better to do it standing outside with the smokers than for long periods in a smoke-filled bar.

    • 10 months ago
  • benson5
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      benson5  

    • I heard this story on the radio this morning and the people being interviewed were 'reet 'appy to be able to have a pint and a fag'. They seemed quite smug to have got round the rule.

    • 10 months ago
  • richjm
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      richjm  

    • Smart idea. I read somewhere that some pubs found another loophole where if their customers all pretended to be taking part in an arty theatre performance, they could smoke so long as it was "important to the plot".

    • 10 months ago

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