Does Smoking Ban Hurt Business?

But most of the scientific, peer-reviewed economic studies indicate that smoking bans either have no overall negative effect or a positive effect on a city's hospitality industry, in terms of sales and employment.

"The only studies showing a negative effect are of low quality and done by or for the tobacco industry or one its allies," says Stanton A. Glantz, director of the Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education at the University of California-San Francisco.

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