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|    Craig Cockburn to Tim Oldham    |
|    Re: Smoking in pubs news as reported by     |
|    05 Dec 20 10:02:36    |
      From: craig@siliconglen.com              On Wednesday, 14 November 1990 at 12:09:06 UTC, Tim Oldham wrote:       > In article <1990Nov1...@craigy.enet.dec.com> cock...@marvin.enet.dec.com       writes:       > >The Maltman in Renfield Street pursued a no-smoking policy       > >for a year and a half in one of its three bars. Hardly anyone came.       > >So MacInnes reversed the no-smoking policy last year.       > >Within a month business was up by 60%.       > Hah! Market forces win over health fascist minority bastard no-hoper killjoy       > loners!       > I suppose you're the sort of person who'd refuse to bring back the       > duty-frees after a trip abroad. Roll on 1992, uniform taxes and cheap French       > cigarettes! A blue haze in every pub in the land.       > 100 Gauloise, please, and a big box of matches. Oh, and mine's a pint.       > Tim. Hit tab.       > --       > Tim Oldham, BT Applied Systems. t...@its.bt.co.uk or ...uunet!ukc!its!tjo       > Well, you'd have a corporate siege mentality, too.              Tim.              How did it work out for you?              Craig.              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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