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On Ventilation systems:
Suppliers of ventilation systems and so-called "smoke eaters"
may tell you that their system is adequate to protect workers and patrons.
Ask two key questions that require only a yes or no
(don't accept any maybes or fuzzy answers):
1) Will this system create a safe atmosphere for employees and
patrons?
2) Will your company indemnify my restaurant against all legal costs
resulting from a successful lawsuit against me for harming either employees or
patrons?
The answer to both questions requires a Yes. If you don't
get them, show them the door -- you are on the hook for all losses; they are not.
Only smoke free air
will protect you from lawsuits due to employee or customer harm from second-hand smoke.
Jack Lohman, Founder, WISH
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Understanding
restaurant operators Concerns
Roughly 70% of restaurateurs favor smoke-free dining.
Why aren't they doing it everywhere? (.pdf
version)
The best way to go smoke-free is With a Splash.
Don't shun the experiences of those who have
been successful at making the change.
Don't
believe us? Look at ANR's brochure.
WRA Rhetoric (and Philip Morris smiles)
How
Big Tobacco scams restaurant operators!
Smoke-Free Bars? Don't be silly!
Heard about the demise of California
restaurants?
Get the facts here.
Don't miss their Smoke-Free Restaurant Testimonials Video!
Check out the graphs at the bottom.
Bar sales went UP!
Tourism
went UP!
News
Articles Re: California Smoke Free Bars
On January 1, 1998 California extended its
smoke-free
restaurant law to also include bars. A sample:
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"Contrary to
tobacco industry assertions, there is no evidence that creating safe,
smoke free work
environments will hurt business. Comparing the first six months of California restaurant
revenues in 1994 to the first six months of 1995, when the first phase of the smokefree
workplace act went into effect, sales increased by 4.3 percent." |
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Read the letter
of support from the Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees
Union in California (five years after the smokefree law took place)
Banning
Smoking Could Boost Business for Restaurants and Bars
Michael Siegel, M.D., M.P.H.,
American Medical
Association's Science News Department
The tobacco industry's attempt at
getting
nonsmokers to be more tolerant of smokers.
Translated: How to get into the restaurant operator's pockets.
A tobacco-industry "accommodation" ploy.
Smoke-Free
is fair for everyone
A guest column
Roadside
Magazine Article
"Smoker’s don’t kill people – it’s
the smoke!"
from online Restaurant Report
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