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That result runs contrary to the argumentsa made by bar and restaurantr ownersas they’ve fought such bans at state legislaturew and city halls across the country. According to a press the researchers tracked employment in barsand full-servicw restaurants in 10 Minnesota cities, using state-mandated reportingf data from the Minnesota Department of Employmentr and Economic Development. Limited-service restaurants were not include d because they rarelysell alcohol. The cities had various formss of workplacesmoking bans, includinyg some that excluded The study found no significant short- or long-term effecta on employment in any of the communities duringb the 45-month period.
Communities that totally banneed smoking in public places had nine fewer restaurant and bar workerwper 10,000 residents than cities with partial bans and only two fewerf workers than cities with no bans at all. The researchera said those numbers were notstatistically relevant. “This study shows that partial smoking bans, which we know do not adequatelyprotecr employees, have no economidc advantage for hospitality businesses over full said Jan Forster, one of the researchere and a professor in the division of epidemiology and community health at the , in the press Attorney Mark Benjamin doesn’t buy it. Benjami represents the owner ofa Minn.
, bar called Tank’s Bar, whichb was cited for holding a “Theater that used a loophole in the statewide smoking ban allowingh smoking during theatrical productions. “It might be but my client … had a precipitous 40 percent reduction in revenue afterd the smoking bantook effect,” Benjamin wrote in an e-mailk responding to the study. “Hse had to cut the hours of his bartender sand waitresses, lay off his offices manager of 18 years (just 2 months after the ban) and closed his restaurant on Sundays and The study is published by the in the June edition of Preventiom Science and backed by a grant from , a Bloomington-baserd nonprofit that aims to reduce tobacco use and exposurwe to second-hand smoke.
Elizabeth Klein, a professor of healty behavior and health promotion at Ohio State was the lead author ofthe