A formal announcement in the Dutch parliament confirmed that there will be an exemption to the smoking ban (first reported on this blog here), to include any bar below 70 square metres and without employees. Fines so far issued will be allowed to lapse, meaning that the ban, for small one-operator businesses, is effectively in tatters.
This development is the result of determined opposition and effective lobbying from the Dutch hospitality industry . These people have not given up the fight, and will move on to defend the entire hospitality industry's right to entertain its customers properly.
Respect!
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Truly
While in the UK there will be a cartoon of MPs and MSPs sticking an NRT Suppository in a different hole.
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