02-11-2006, 01:26 AM
pinion Wrote:
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> For all the people that say banning smoking in
> bars has raised the profits of the bar can you
> please show me some proof.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3015995.stm
"A TUC spokesman, Tom Mellish, told BBC Radio 5 Live that studies from eight countries showed places which became smoke-free zones attracted extra customers.
He said: "They all came back with positive results.
"Bars, restaurants and clubs increased their profits and increased their attendances because they're going out to a different market."
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http://www.hotel-online.com/News/PR2003_...ffect.html
"In El Paso, Texas, which has one of the toughest bans in the nation, officials report the effects were stunningly positive for businesses that fought the ban hardest: an 18 percent increase in bar liquor sales in the first nine months after the ban compared with the same nine months a year earlier. Restaurants showed a smaller increase, about 4 percent.
A 1998 study by the California State Board of Equalization found annual revenue increases of 7 percent in small restaurants and bars in the two years after smoking bans went into effect -- greater growth than in previous years. In Massachusetts, the Department of Public Health gathered sales-tax data and found that restaurant receipts increased by 5 percent to 9 percent in towns that had enacted various smoking bans between 1992 and 1995. "
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Info about the Chicago law
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local...i-news-hed
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> For all the people that say banning smoking in
> bars has raised the profits of the bar can you
> please show me some proof.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3015995.stm
"A TUC spokesman, Tom Mellish, told BBC Radio 5 Live that studies from eight countries showed places which became smoke-free zones attracted extra customers.
He said: "They all came back with positive results.
"Bars, restaurants and clubs increased their profits and increased their attendances because they're going out to a different market."
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http://www.hotel-online.com/News/PR2003_...ffect.html
"In El Paso, Texas, which has one of the toughest bans in the nation, officials report the effects were stunningly positive for businesses that fought the ban hardest: an 18 percent increase in bar liquor sales in the first nine months after the ban compared with the same nine months a year earlier. Restaurants showed a smaller increase, about 4 percent.
A 1998 study by the California State Board of Equalization found annual revenue increases of 7 percent in small restaurants and bars in the two years after smoking bans went into effect -- greater growth than in previous years. In Massachusetts, the Department of Public Health gathered sales-tax data and found that restaurant receipts increased by 5 percent to 9 percent in towns that had enacted various smoking bans between 1992 and 1995. "
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Info about the Chicago law
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local...i-news-hed