you have to remember that some soul venues are at clubs ie social, miners welfares etc.if these places suffer in general then they may close.a northern do once a month may not be enough to keep them open.its great at the moment,its summer.the winter will be the telling point.seen a program about the ban in ireland and it said about 10-15% of places have had to close due to the ban.an estimate on closers here was between 6-10,000.at the end of the day,its good for non smokers and bad for smokers.theres nowt you can do about it