"You heard New York's smokefree law hurt the bar business? Baloney. Ours has been great!" Patrick Hughes | Proprietor, Scruffy Duffy's, 8th Avenue "I run a regular sports bar full of regular guys," says Patrick Hughes, of Manhattan. "When the smokefree law went into effect, we didn't blink twice." "The only difference we saw after going smokefree? We got an even bigger after-work crowd coming in. We're seeing new faces! "It's not just me, either. I've seen the New York economic reports, the City's job studies. After the law went into effect, New York bar and restaurant jobs actually went up. "Of course you're not going to hear that from the tobacco companies and the flacks they hire. They want guys like me scared enough to fight their fights for them. Forget it. "Here's the best part, though. I don't go home to my wife and little kids stinking like an ashtray, my throat raw. We're not coughing up somebody else's smoke anymore. "So how's running a bar smokefree? Let's just say I'm breathing easier more ways than one." Get the facts at TobaccoScam.ucsf.edu tobaccoscam Big Tobacco is lying. Again. TobaccoScam is a project of Stanton Glantz, PhD, of the School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco. San Francisco, CA 94143-1390.