After all you can smoke in your own home (so far anyway the way this nanny state is heading) my point is in your own home you have the say over what goes on, who comes in, smoking or not smoking etc. A publican can refuse entry to anyone they please without reason so is there a way round the ban. ie publicans deciding that they will or wont allow smoking in their home(the pub)
2007-12-30 05:10:06 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
No, you can only smoke in the part of the building that is for private use i.e. the family home. the public part that the licence covers must be smoke free.
2007-12-30 05:16:47 · answer #1 · answered by Jon Soundman 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Publicans do not really have much say in the matter, they are a servant of the governament and a pub is a public house - an extension of the street and public land, however now where smoking is banned.
The simplest way is what a lot of people are doing in London. Offer free drink on a domestic premices but charge for entry. That way you will not need a commercial alcohol licence.
2008-01-03 04:04:21 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You cannot use your own home for the supply of beers and spirits and no licence could be issued for that. Also, a landlord could simply not admit only those who smoked as he would soon go out of business. The law states that no one can smoke in an enclosed or substantially enclosed public area and if the landlord didn't admit the public, he would simply go out of business. Anyway, the ban is for the common good, isn't it? And most pubs have now engineered some sort of outside shelter to service their smoking patrons ..... providing they don't mind freezing their bollocks off as well!
2007-12-30 05:18:17 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No if it is a pub it is licensed, if it is a private house it is illegal to sell drinks.
Members of the public caught smoking can be fined up to £200 while licensees allowing smoking at their premises can be fined up to £2,500
2007-12-30 05:23:55 · answer #4 · answered by Fred3663 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No but it raises an interesting question. The private part of a pub where a landlord lives is exempt but what if he hived off one of his private rooms to patrons as his private guests?
I can see nothing in the act that covers it.:
www.nosmokinglaw.co.uk
2007-12-30 06:07:18 · answer #5 · answered by crazeygrazey 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I love the nanny state. I can now go out for a drink without choking, wiping runny eyes and stinking of smoke.
2007-12-30 05:18:51 · answer #6 · answered by resignedtolife 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
If the building is used by the public, then it is no smoking.
2007-12-30 05:42:44 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, they would probably keep you from smoking in your home since it's attached to a business.
2007-12-30 05:13:34 · answer #8 · answered by G-gal 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
If you are charging money for goods or services, you are using your home as a business. Because it's a home doesn't exclude it from being a business; it is both.
2008-01-01 10:14:30 · answer #9 · answered by luv2bfit 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Smoking should be made illegal if it is within any building. If a person wishes to smoke then he/she should do by themselves and not within the vacinity of any other person.
Perhaps it is time that smoking was made illegal.
2007-12-30 08:32:21 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋