Tera Miller

Latest research shows that the banning of smoking in restaurants has reduced heart attacks by as much as a fifth. Researchers in the University of California have analysed relevant studies undertaken after 2004. In all the studies it was observed that the restaurant smoking ban had had a direct effect. After the ban there was an immediate reduction in the number of heart infarct victims admitted to hospitals.
The ban on restaurant smoking has been more successful in the United States than in Italy and Ireland. This is also evident in the reduction of heart attacks. According to British Medical Journal, about a third of restaurant guests continue to be subjected to cigarette smoke in these two countries whereas in the United States the number is only one in six.
www.factsandarts.com/.../effects-of-banning-smoking-in-restaurants/

Should smoking be permitted in restaurants?

Currently, half of U.S. states have broad bans on smoking in enclosed public places, including workplaces, restaurants, and bars. The rest have more limited restrictions, such as requiring designated smoking areas in restaurants and workplaces, or prohibiting smoking only in government buildings and schools. A careful review of these laws could reveal that some states go further in restricting smoking than the American public would prefer, while others don't go nearly far enough.
www.gallup.com/poll/.../americans-smoking-off-menu-restaurants.aspx

Should smoking be permitted in restaurants?

In California, where the country's strictest smoking ban has been in effect since 1995, restaurant sales did not suffer for the industry as a whole or on a per-unit basis. The smoking ban in bars, which started three years later, did not effect sales either.
When restaurant sales are compared with other retail sectors in California, and other states and cities with such bans, have also reported no adverse effects.. Half as many people smoke today as did forty years ago, with the majority of people, including many smokers themselves, now supporting smoke-free public places.
www.collegesportsscholarships.com/quit-smoking-restaurants.htm

Should smoking be permitted in restaurants?

The real problem rests with our legal community, and based upon the predictability of their actions, smoking in bars and restaurants will probably be banned everywhere sometime in the very foreseeable future. A recent study published by the Journal of the American Medical Association shows that California's waitresses die from higher rates of lung and heart disease than any other female occupational group. They have four times the expected lung cancer mortality and 2-1/2 times the expected heart disease mortality rate. According to the study, this increased death rate is directly attributable to having to work day after day in smoke-filled rooms.
bbradley@restaurantreport.com

Should smoking be permitted in restaurants?

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"It Causes Lung Cancer, Heart Disease, Emphysema, and May Complicate Pregnancy" It can also annoy the hell out of your customers.
by Bob Bradley