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.
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