January 22, 2008

Pay As You Smoke

by Piers Fawkes in Trends In The UK, Lifestyle, Food & Drink, Entertainment

_users_UserFiles_Image_image.jpgDamian Musgrave sent us a report from Brighton where pubs have decided to be a little tight with the smokers who now have to puff outdoors. He says that instead of having heaters on all the time outside pubs for the smokers, a couple of places have installed Pay As You Smoke heaters machines for them. Put 20p in and the heat comes on for 3 mins while you have a smoke.

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One Response to “Pay As You Smoke”

  1. What a cheek!

    It’s almost as bad as when places charge for the duke box. A comfortable environment (heat) and a decent ambience (music) should be gratis.

    So customers pay for music, the bar staff’s wages and now heat. I think they should add light - put a quarter in the meter if you want to see your game of pool…

    I thought the Germans had a good solution to this:

    http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,524542,00.html

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