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Submitted by navychief1999 on September 1, 2007
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NEW YORK'S BAN ON SMOKING IN BARS AND RESTAURANTS
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Restrictions on the time, place and manner in which public smoking may occur have been increasing over the last several years. While the early focus of anti-smoking initiatives was on consumer education and industry advertising restrictions, over the past two decades, smoking opponents have increasingly taken their battle to state and local governments, seeking prohibitions on smoking in a wide variety of public establishments. Advocates of these bans claim to be protecting the nonsmoking public and workers from the adverse health effects of secondhand smoke. Opponents of smoking restrictions dispute the existence and/or severity of these adverse consequences and claim that bans have the unintended consequence of hurting business.
Nationwide, the number of local communities implementing full or partial bans on smoking in public facilities including worksites, bars and restaurants has increased more than eight-fold over the past two decades. More than 200 U.S. municipalities had local clean indoor air laws in effect during 1985; by April 2004, over 1,700 communities had enacted such laws. Almost one-third of the U.S. population now is subject to some type of smoking restriction, with various combinations of constrains being imposed.
In August of 2002, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg signaled his intention to prohibit smoking in establishments that had been exempted from the City's earlier smoking ban enacted in 1995. Free-standing bars, smaller restaurants, pool halls, bingo parlors and bowling alleys were now required to implement smoke free policies and environments. Predictably, there was much acrimony in the months that followed, as representatives of the city's 13,000 bars and smaller restaurants that had allowed smoking complained businesses would suffer, while public health advocates pushed the case for protecting the tens of thousands of customers and workers in those
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