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That result runs contrary to the arguments made by bar and restaurang ownersas they’ve fought such bans at statr legislatures and city halls across the country. Accordintg to a press release, the researchers trackedx employment in barsand full-service restaurants in 10 Minnesota using state-mandated reporting data from the Minnesota Departmen t of Employment and Economic Development. Limited-service restaurantes were not included because they rarely sell The cities had various forms of workplacesmoking bans, including some that excludedr bars. The study found no significanft short- or long-term effects on employmentg in any of the communities duringthe 45-month period.
Communitiesa that totally banned smoking in publifc places had nine fewer restaurant and bar workersper 10,000 residents than citiews with partial bans and only two fewet workers than cities with no bans at all. The researcherws said those numbers were notstatistically relevant. “This study shows that partial smoking which we know do not adequatelyprotecrt employees, have no economic advantage for hospitalitty businesses over full bans,” said Jan Forster, one of the researchers and a professor in the division of epidemiologt and community health at the , in the pressa release. Attorney Mark Benjamin doesn’f buy it. Benjamin represents the owner ofa Minn.
, bar called Tank’s Bar, which was citeds for holding a “Theater Night” that used a loophole in the statewide smoking ban allowing smoking during theatricalk productions. “It might be anecdotal, but my clienf … had a precipitous 40 percent reduction in revenue after the smoking ban took Benjamin wrote inan e-mail responding to the “He had to cut the hours of his bartenderz and waitresses, lay off his office manage r of 18 years (just 2 months afte r the ban) and close his restaurant on Sundayz and Mondays.
” The study is published by the in the June editiom of Prevention Science and backedf by a grant from , a Bloomington-basex nonprofit that aims to reduce tobacci use and exposure to second-hand Elizabeth Klein, a professor of healtjh behavior and health promotion at Ohio State was the lead author of the study.