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Professionals to eat out - smokers to stay away
13 March, 2007
Latest research suggests pub diners will fall under the ban
Upmarket food pubs will thrive - while traditional community pubs with limited opportunities for smoking areas have challenging times ahead, according to new research from CACI.
Pub visitors in England & Wales could rise by five per cent after the ban. However, despite the boost in the number of pub users, the percentage of consumers eating out in pubs is expected to decline slightly from 66 per cent to 64 per cent as pubs to lose their attraction as an eating venue for smokers.
YouGov research carried out for the consumer analyst shows 75 per cent of adults in upmarket metropolitan areas will eat out in pubs after the ban, well above the national average of 64 per cent.
CACI says pub operators will need to work hard to communicate the availability of shelters and other unenclosed smoking areas in order to convince smokers to continue eating out in their establishments.
Commenting on the findings, Ian Thurman, head of location analysis at CACI, said: "There are challenging times ahead for pub operators and it will be vitally important for owners to carefully review their estates and improve understanding of their local consumers. The operators who identify the pubs with increased potential following the ban will see good returns on their investments."
Readers' comments
If you believe any off their statistics, I've got a bridge I would like to sell you in Brooklyn. New York. The bans have killed business in the states there are no independents left in California only chains that are promarily food outlets. Keep fighting, keep organising, never stop it's not about smoking it's about our rights.
I cant wait for the smoking ban, and 90% of my customers can't either.
Dear Sir or Madam, We are going to get the truth out, and stop all the propaganda. We heard what you said about what you “think” will happen if the new smoking ban comes in, I say if because we have a Judicial Review, and are lobbying for what all should be happy with, separate smoking rooms in pubs and clubs with filtration and ventilation. If you think the traditional community pubs and the big pubcos will not you may well be wrong, as we have sent out our newsletter, and 76% say they will move from the big pubs to the community pubs, and in our newsletter we ask for the ignoring of the smoking ban, and now 82% say they will, if that many ignore, the Government will be able to do nothing. Then your numbers say there will be a small drop, well if you look at what is 2really” happening and has happened in Ireland and Scotland, you will find in Ireland oover 1000 pubs have closed, and it’s like grim death over there, and you will find the same is happening in Scotland, and why a ban when the WHO study says there is no harm by passive smoke, and not one person can be named who has died or been harmed, and that is World wide. Then look what happenes when smoking bans are implemented; the following state-wide economic losses have occurred in New York’s bar and tavern industry as a direct result of the state-wide smoking ban: • 2,000 jobs (10.7% of actual employment) • $28.5 million in wages and salary • $37 million in gross state product In addition, there are indirect losses to other businesses which supply and service the state’s bars and taverns: • 650 jobs • $21.5 million in labour earnings • $34.5 million in gross state product In summary, the enactment of the New York State smoking ban has had a dramatic negative impact on the bar and tavern business and related businesses. The total economic impact is: • 2650 jobs • $50 million in worker earnings • $71.5 million in gross state product (output) New Zealand smoke more after the ban http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/GE0612/S00091.htm Italians smoking more despite national ban http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/world/20070130-0636-italy-smoking-.html Spain: Spaniards knuckle under to new smoking curbs and there are 1/2 million less smoking http://www.tobacco.org/news/239087.html New York has a bar smoking ban, so Smoker Numbers Rise, http://www.nysun.com/article/39753 Ireland Has Almost 20 000 More Smokers, http://freedom2choose.co.uk/news1.php?id=39 Smoking rates up in Scotland, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2006/11/01/cnsmoking01.xml Children are victims of smoking ban, says study http://news.scotsman.com/topics.cfm?tid=663&id=341192007 Children's passive smoking increases after pub bans http://www.thepublican.com/story.asp?sectioncode=7&storycode=54426&c=1 We are, http://www.cheetham.cc/index.php?sid=5eb21cd2116603ea0d42c21e44ce765d http://freedom2choose.co.uk/ Wayne