Is This the End of a Working Man's Tradition? Pub Regulars: Community Under Threat | Publicans Draw Flak | Police Resources Tied Up Pub Regulars: Community Under Threat | Publicans Draw Flak | Police Resources Tied Up Scotland: A Smoking Free Zone

The Herald › March 23, 2006

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THICK white plumes rise and roll like fog on a northern beach. Look closer and the vague outlines of an endangered species shift in the gloom. At the Viceroy Bar in Glasgow, customers draw deeply on their cigarettes, then fill the air with smoky discussion about the end of an era.

For 30 years many of them have come regularly to this hostelry in Glasgow's south side. Here, they've leaned on the oak bar and put the world to rights, elbow to elbow with old friends. While they've clinked glasses over the births, deaths and marriages that peppered their lives, most of them have smoked - a habit that will be officially outlawed in public places across the country from 6am this Sunday.

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Is This the End of a Working Man's Tradition? Pub Regulars: Community Under Threat | Publicans Draw Flak | Police Resources Tied Up Pub Regulars: Community Under Threat | Publicans Draw Flak | Police Resources Tied Up Scotland: A Smoking Free Zone

During the first few months after the ban was introduced in Ireland, 7000 people gave up for good. This fact has been greeted as an incentive by some, but others, who have no intention of quitting, fear next week may herald the end of the traditional Scottish pub commu...

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