smoke free laws do not hurt business

One of the largest studies to date on the economic impact of smoke-free laws, published today in the scientific journal preventing chronic disease, provides powerful new evidence that such laws do not harm the restaurants and bar industry, even in states with high smoking rates and a history of tobacco growing and manufacturing.

The evidence is clear that smoke-free laws protect workers and customers alike from the proven dangers of secondhand smoke without harming business.
The new study analyzed economic data from 216 smoke-free cities and counties across nine states-Alabama, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas and West Virginia.
The study found that smoke-free laws did not have an adverse economic impact on restaurants or bars in any of the states studied.
In America,30 states including Washington DC and Puerto Rico now have smoke-free laws that include all restaurants and bars .
The secondhand smoke contains more than 7,000 chemicals including hundreds that are toxic and at least 69 that cause cancer. According to the Surgeon General, secondhand smoke causes heart diseases and lung cancer in nonsmoking adults and respiratory problems, sudden infant death syndrome, low birth weight, ear infections and more severe asthma attacks in infants and the children. In the US , secondhand smoke kills about 50,000 people each year according to the centers for disease control and prevention.
Sources-- campaign for tobacco free kids USA

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