Bolton pub licensee Nick Hogan has been
gaoled for six months for allowing smoking in his pub. “Allowing smoking” – what kind of crime is that? All he was doing was allowing something that was perfectly legal three years ago and which the vast majority of his customers wanted. His wife Denise said:
“Ninety per cent of people who come into my pub want to smoke, even the non-smokers think there should be a choice. These laws are ridiculous.”
Leg-iron
deals with this on his blog far more effectively than I could ever hope to do. And Chris Snowdon points out that, even within the context of the law, this was
a disproportionate sentence designed to make an example of him.
