From: "John Beamish" 

That's because if there are 5 people (4 non-smokers and 1 smoker) they all
go to the smoking area.

"Adam Flinton"  wrote in
message news:4069184d$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>
> Here they tried the idea of a smoking room (as opposed to a no-smoking
> room in a number of pubs (apparantly following health nazi
> requests)......but the smoking rooms became standing room only whereas
> the rest of the pubs were empty.
>
> So they reverted back to no smoking rooms which are generally empty.
>
> Adam

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