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What do your customers want? Decades of polls and elections show:
1. People want smokefree restaurants.
2. Support for any smokefree measure grows the longer it's in effect.
3. If Big Tobacco tries to upset smokefree measures, voters defend them.
That's why compliance with smokefree restaraunt and bar laws is so high. (Click here
to learn more)
Voters uphold smokefree measures...
The tobacco industry — acting through a variety of hospitality and other front groups — has tried to overturn local smokefree measures at the ballot box again and again. From Maine to Minnesota, California to Colorado, voters have upheld smokefree protections by substantial majorities.
EXAMPLE: In 1994, Philip Morris and other tobacco companies spent $20 million trying to convince California voters to overturn their state's smokefree restaurant and bar measure. Big Tobacco lost 71% to 29%.
EXAMPLE: In 2001, voters in Duluth, MN and Minot, ND rebuffed efforts by Big Tobacco and its hospitality allies to rescind local smokefree restaurant ordinances.
EXAMPLE: In 2002, voters in Helena, MT and Lubbock, TX did the same, with over 60% of voters supporting the ordinances in both cases.
EXAMPLE: 1n 2002 and 2003, Pueblo, CO's smokefree measure was challenged by two campaigns that outspent health advocates. Voters twice defended the measure by 60% majorities.
When will Big Tobacco stop forcing taxpayers to finance costly referendum elections after local city and county councils act responsibility to protect hospitality employees and patrons from the toxic chemicals in secondhand smoke?
Public opinion polls back smokefree restaurants...
| Location and Date |
Sponsor |
Major Findings |
| National, 2006 |
Zagat Survey |
89% want restaurants 100% smokefree; If dining were smokefree, 39% say they would eat out more often, 3% less often |
| National, 2005 |
Zagat Survey |
82% want restaurants 100% smokefree; If dining were smokefree, 26% say they would eat out more often, 3% less often |
| New York City, 2003-4 |
RTI International |
64% support for NYC Smoke-Free Air Act in early 2003, when law went into effect, grows to 74% in mid-2004; 20.4% reported going out more often after the smokefree measure in 2003; 32.4% in 2004. |
| Connecticut, 2003 |
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85% back state's smokefree workplace measure
93% agree smokefree restaurants and bars are "healthier"
91% agree that all Connecticut workers should be protected from secondhand smoke |
| New York State, 2003 |
Zogby International |
63% approved of state Clean Indoor Air Act
16% say going out to restaurants more because of the law,11% say less
19% said patronizing bars and nightclubs more, 14% say less |
| Ottawa, ONT 2002 |
Decima Research, Inc. |
68% support smokefree restaurant and bar bylaw one year after it was implemented
7% say they are going to restaurants and bars more because of the bylaw, 8% say less |
| New York City, 1999 |
NYC Dept of Health |
67% want all restaurants smokefree,
52% want bars
47% say would go out to eat more often if smokefree, 13% say less |
| Santa Fe, NM 1999 |
AHA and ACS |
56% support smokefree restaurants
25% say eat out more, 7% less |
| Gilbert, AZ 1999 |
AHA |
72% want all public places smokefree
62% say eat out more often, 8% less |
| Tempe, AZ 1999 |
AHA |
67% favor ordinance making all enclosed public places smokefree
57% say would eat out more if smokefree restaurants, 9% say less
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| Chandler, AZ 1999 |
AHA |
65% favor ordinance making all public places smokefree
58% say would eat out more if smokefree, 11% say eat out less |
| Albany, GA 1998 |
American Cancer Society |
67% support smokefree restaurants (allow for separately ventilated rooms)
49% say would eat out more if smokefree, 8% say would dine out less often |
| Gwinnett County, GA 1998 |
Georgia Public Health District 3-4 |
51% favor banning smoking in restaurants
52% are more likely to dine at smokefree restaurant, 10% less likely |
| Las Cruces, NM 1995 |
Las Cruces Sun-News |
73% want smokefree public places |
| New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles 1994 |
Zagat |
Should all smoking be banned? NY: 70% yes,
SF 79%,
LA 81%
The survey is here. |
National survey, 1992 |
Associated Press |
54% favor smokefree public places |
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