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None, because they fool the hospitality industry (read vintners) to do it for them.
if so then what's your beef?
Terrible ad - Obviously the Vitners just can't stomach the truth - it would break their hearts to come out & say 'Pubs are nicer places without smoke' - they have to take this roundabout route of 'you didn't just come to the pub to smoke'. :mad Have they not realised that 75% of the population don't smoke, and smart businesses would direct their marketing at the 75%, not the 25% minority.I heard a radio ad this morning encouraging people to go to Dublin Pubs. It was a poor and unfocused ad in my opinion. It mentioned the smoking ban, what is the purpose of drawing in this debate. What ad agency was responsible?
'you didn't just come to the pub to smoke'
Teachers head the roll in new Dáil
The number represents a slight decline from the previous Dáil, although it is significantly ahead of business-men (20) and farmers (18) .
This Dáil shows a notable increase in the number of businessmen returned, and the number quoted above does not include two undertakers and a pharmacist. A survey following the general election in 1997 showed that only seven TDs described their occupation as 'businessman', although that number did not include a number of specified businesses, such as publicans.
A further 16 TDs worked in businesses or corporations as senior managers, accountants or other 'higher professionals', the most well-known of these is the Taoiseach. A similar number worked as 'lower professionals' such as clerks. Caoimghin O Caoláin of Sinn Féin is the sole bank manager.
Lawyers are well represented with 13 solicitors or barristers, although this represents a decline of three from the last Dáil. There are five lecturers and six doctors in the new Dáil, and three former union officials.
Eighteen members of the new Dáil come from 'public affairs' backgrounds -- either working as advisers or assistants to public figures in the past. These include Fiona O'Malley and MJ Nolan. Some list their professions as "full-time public representatives". Others, such as Denis Naughten who was nominated to the Seanad while still a student (following the untimely death of his father) have never been anything else but a TD. A number of successful candidates in this election -- such as Sinn Féin's Martin Ferris -- worked solely as councillors in the years preceding the election, a new departure in political life.
There are five engineers or architects in the new Dáil. Only two journalists made it to Leinster House, but they are in greater supply than social workers, of whom there is only one. There is also only one economist. Laboratory technicians are also represented -- there are three of them -- whereas the number of psychiatric nurses (one) seems on the low side.
Teachers again dominate the ranks of the 29th Dáil, with 28 members of the profession among the 166 deputies who will take their seats when the new Dáil meets for the first time next Thursday.
However, the company took a swipe at the smoking ban, blaming it for being "a contributory factor in the estimated overall decline of 2% in the long alcohol drinks market in the five months to July 31 2004".
Dublin-based C&C said the ban, which came into effect at the end of March, has been a big factor in an estimated 5 per cent decline in on-trade sales of long alcoholic drinks in the five months to the end of July, hitting its flagship brand Bulmers Cider.
It looks like the vintners are not the only crowd to allow themselves to be hijacked by Big Tobacco.
has every business who claims the smoking ban has had a detrimental impact on their business been hijacked by "Big Tobacco"?
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