Good News About Smoke-Free Restaurants

Monday, March 1, 2004

Good News About Smoke-Free Restaurants (NAPSA)—Considered the most hazardous indoorair pollu- tion since asbestos, secondhand tobacco smoke contains 60 carcinogens. That’s why Kids Involuntarily Inhaling Secondhand Smoke (KIISS) is working hard to protect restaurant and bar workers as well as their customers from this threat—which is the third-leading preventable cause of death in the United States. The health risks presented by inhaling secondhand tobacco smoke have spurred cities and states across the nation to pass smoke-free workplace legislation at an unprecedented pace. In the last two years alone, the number of smoke-free public places has more than doubled. Now, more than one-third of restaurants across the nation are smoke-free by law. BREATHE EASY—Many people are trying to make restaurants smoke-free. restaurants and bars since March of 2004. places including restaurants and bars. Even Lexington, Kentucky, right in the heart of tobacco country, has gone smoke-free in all of its restaurants andbars. Someentire countries are going Despite these gains, secondhand tobacco smokeis responsible for tens of thousands of deaths each year in America. This campaign is not to keep people from smoking but to prohibit smoking in indoor environments where nonsmokersface health risks from others’ secondhand tobacco smoke. To advance that effort, KIISS provides pamphlets and videos on the benefits of going smoke-free as well as a “Smoke-Free Restaurant & Bar Implementation Handbook”. which has been smoke-free in all KIISS at www.kiiss.org. In fact, seven states—California, New York, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Maine, Rhode Island and Delaware—are completely smoke-free in all indoor work- smoke-free, including Ireland, For more information, visit

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