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  Not an aversion to smokers Sid, an aversion to their smoke.
  
  In every group of people who pop out for a drink there is likely to be a smoker or two. So where do you go a smoking establishment to the discomfort and health implications of non-smokers or a non-smoking establishment where smokers, if they want to indulge, can do so outside?
  
  I think your suggestion would be divisive and the best way is a total ban, as now. In the past in order to be sociable I have had to put up with running eyes, smelly clothes and sometimes choking on smoke just in order to be sociable. Refuse to go out with them, OK - and be slagged off for being unsociable. One Christmas there was a row over just that when I simply could not stand another lunchtime swathed in smoke.
  
  Now, if smokers were generally less selfish and were considerate to non-smokers, avoiding voluntarily, poisoning the air in the presence of non-smokers, then there would not be any reason for the ban. Sadly that is not the real world.

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