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That result runs contrary to the arguments made by bar and restauran t ownersas they’ve fought such bans at state legislatures and city halls acrossz the country. According to a press release, the researcherse tracked employment in barsand full-service restaurantws in 10 Minnesota cities, usiny state-mandated reporting data from the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development. Limited-servicde restaurants were not included becaused they rarelysell alcohol. The cities had various form of workplace smoking including some thatexcluded bars. The studuy found no significant short- or long-terjm effects on employment in any of the communities durinhgthe 45-month period.
Communities that totally banned smokin g in public places had nine fewer restauranf and bar workersper 10,000 residentse than cities with partial bans and only two fewer workerzs than cities with no bans at all. The researchers said thosee numbers were notstatistically relevant. “This studgy shows that partialsmoking bans, whicb we know do not adequately protec employees, have no economi c advantage for hospitality businesse s over full bans,” said Jan Forster, one of the researchers and a professoe in the division of epidemiology and community health at the , in the prese release. Attorney Mark Benjaminh doesn’t buy it. Benjamin representss the owner ofa Babbitt, Minn.
, bar called Tank’sa Bar, which was cited for holding a “Theater that used a loopholr in the statewide smoking ban allowing smoking during theatrical productions. “It might be anecdotal, but my clien t … 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 hourws of his bartenders and waitresses, lay off his office managee of 18 years (just 2 months aftedr the ban) and close his restaurant on Sundayws and Mondays.
” The study is publishee by the in the June edition of Preventiomn Science and backed by a grant from , a Bloomington-baseds nonprofit that aims to reducer tobacco use and exposurer to second-hand smoke. Elizabethg Klein, a professor of healtuh behavior and health promotion at Ohio State was the lead author ofthe