I had a visit from nice lady from some group set up to support the licensed trade. She explained how the smoking ban would probably put us out of business and it was there duty to help us out. She gave me some petitions to get signed and suggested I only give them to people who would be interested in having the ban stopped... the clear implication being people smoking a fag. I contested that I didn't think it would really affect business, and that even though I smoke myself the only reason we allowed it was because I thought we would see an overall net loss of sales as people went ot other smoking bars, which they couldn't do if it was banned everywhere. She looked at me like I was mad and said 'but have you seen the studies from Ireland and NY'? then I asked who paid her wages, she was really reticent to tell me, but did finally concede that it was BAT, or British American Tobacco. Which I found interesting, because there was no way she wanted to tell me that.