Chapter 37 Workplace, Restaurant, And Airline Smoking

Restrictions

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Sales tax revenues from California cities and counties that have banned smoking in

bars suggest that the bans do not hurt business, contrary to what the tobacco industry

says about keeping customers away.

Associated Press, November 3, 1997

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In a follow-up to an earlier study, Stanton Glantz and Lisa Smith in the October 1997

issue of the American Journal of Public Health (pp. 1687-93) published an evaluation

of the economic effects of ordinances requiring smoke-free restaurants and bars. The

conclusion was the same as their 1994 study: these smoke-free ordinances do not

adversely affect restaurant or bar sales or revenues. In a strongly worded editorial,

Mervyn Susser, editor of the American Journal of Public Health, commented on the

furor that Dr. Glantz has generated with the tobacco industry (pp. 1593-94). "The

tobacco industry has launched a personal attack upon Dr. Glantz' credibility and

integrity as a scientist. Plainly, the aim is to destroy his career. The industry has

assailed him in press conferences and in letters to government representatives and

has formed a public interest organization (Californians for Scientific Integrity)

seemingly for the sole purpose of suing him and his employer (the University of

California). Contrary to the tobacco industry's claims, Glantz' contributions to this

Journal have been sound and valid and attest to an unceasing and imaginative effort

to limit the tobacco epidemic... In a letter... to Richard Atkinson, President of the

University of California, the National Smokers Alliance charged Glantz as a faculty

member with scientific incompetence or fraud in respect to the same paper... All

reviewers agreed that both the previous work and the new work are sound... Instead of

a compelling critique, however, we find a melange of scientifically inadmissible

manipulations of data to obtain a desired result."

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In North America in 1996, 97% of all hotels had designated nonsmoking rooms. The

corresponding figures were 93% for Australia, 80% in Asia, 77% in Africa and the

Middle East, and 69% for Europe.

Contra Costa Times, January 22, 1997, p. C1

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