Has anyone noticed the amount of Pubs that have closed or that are up to let?

It was only today that the JD Wetherspoon chain announced a fall in profits of around 10% over the summer since the introduction of the smoking ban, this in despite of the initial pronouncements that business would increase on the food side of things, which actually it has relatively. The only problem is...pubs aren't restaurants. Food in pubs is a side-line only. The expected increase in non-smokers attending pubs hasn't materialised and now publicans and chains groups are struggling, and that is only set to get worse over the winter period. These health fascists make me laugh, they force us out of the pubs on the premise that they can't drink in them because of our smoke. When they get their way, they don't then choose to drink in the pubs that they have forced us to vacate but instead now start whinging about having to suffer walking past smokers in the street...if they were in the pubs they forced us out of i wouldn't be a problem. But they're not. They're all sitting at home with their copy of the Guardian and their tofu and chick pea stir-fry plotting how to wipe out drinking alcohol in pubs so they can then declare that drinking establishments in the UK are free from drunken hooligans who might spill their organic smoothy over their soy crisps...