Ten Years After Indoor Smoking Ban, a Healthier New York

[hrmjustin]

AP

ALBANY, N.Y.—Smoky restaurants and offices and even smoke-filled bars, buses and trains are mostly a historical image in New York as the state marks the 10th anniversary of its landmark indoor smoking ban, which advocates say saved thousands of lives while most of its opponents’ worst fears blew away.

Few measures in Albany changed life in New York more.

The law relegated most smokers outdoors while relieving nonsmokers from facing secondhand smoke every day at work.

“The passage of New York State’s Clean Indoor Air Act was a historic moment for public health,” said Blair Horner, vice president of advocacy at the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network. “In 2002, the average New York bar or restaurant was essentially a hotbox of deadly carcinogens. For hospitality workers clocking an eight-hour shift, this was an incredibly dangerous situation.”

Read more at http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/193514-ten-years-after-indoor-smoking-ban-a-healthier-new-york/

[SheilaT]

1. But didn't all the bars and restaurants shut

down after the smoking ban? I could swear that's what everyone said would happen.

Just like they all closed in California after that state banned smoking in bars and restaurants.

They didn't? Oh.

[hrmjustin]

2. And you know at first I had an issue with it but after a few smoke free visits to bars and

restaurants I fell in love with the law.

[cascadiance]

3. Message from the late Alvin Lee and Ten Years After to former New Yorkers...