Economic Impact

Americans for Nonsmokers' Rights:

Economic Impact of Smokefree Ordinances: An Overview

Resources for restaurants and other workplaces

Chambers of Commerce Support for Smokefree Air

Business Costs in Smoke-Filled Environments, economic advantages of eliminating secondhand smoke, such as employee health and productivity, insurance rates and maintenance

Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids

Smoke Free Laws Do Not Harm Business at Restaurants and Bars

KIISS (Kids Involuntarily Inhaling Secondhand Smoke)

Video: Going Smoke Free: Healthy Environment | Healthy Business (.mov file, 32 MB)

American Lung Association

Fuzzy Math: How the Tobacco Industry Distorts the Truth about the Economic Effects of Smoke-free Restaurants and Bars.

Smoke-free Colorado

Economic impact brochure in English and Spanish

TobaccoScam

Resource Library/Economics
Review of the quality of studies on the economic effects of smoke-free policies on the hospitality industry [Scollo M, Lal A, Hyland A, Glantz S., Tobacco Control, 2003; 12:13-20]
Economic Impact of Smoke-Free Policies on Restaurants and Bars [Hyland, Andrew, Roswell Park Cancer Institute]

New York State Department of Health

The Health and Economic Impact of New York's Clean Indoor Air Act