TOBACCO: CIGARETTES CIGARS AND SMOKING GOVERNMENT : LAW : UNITED STATES: STATES: NORTH CAROLINA: Patrons, Restaurant Owners Expect Changes for the Better After Smoking Ban
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TOBACCO: CIGARETTES CIGARS AND SMOKING GOVERNMENT :
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UNITED STATES: STATES: NORTH CAROLINA:
Patrons, Restaurant Owners Expect Changes
for the Better After Smoking Ban
Patrons, Restaurant Owners Expect Changes
for the Better After Smoking Ban
By Patricia E. Matson
City...@StarNewsOnline.com
Published: Friday, January 1, 2010 at 11:39 p.m.
Last Modified: Friday, January 1, 2010 at 11:39 p.m.
Star News Online
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100109986/1177?Title=Patrons-restaurant-owners-expect-
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Nonsmokers at restaurants and bars will be able to breathe a little easier
starting Saturday. Owners of those establishments are expecting some
positive changes, too.
A new statewide law is taking effect and banning indoor smoking at
restaurants, bars and other food venues, with a few exceptions such as
cigar bars. Businesses that break the ban can be fined $200 per day, and
individual smokers can be fined $50.
The adjustment will be tough, said John Hinnant, executive director of
Wilmington Downtown, via e-mail. However, in his and others experience,
smoke-free restaurants typically do better, particularly restaurants.
I think business will improve overall, said Paul Stone, president of the
North Carolina Restaurant and Lodging Association. More people may go out
to eat if they no longer have to walk through a smoky bar section to get
seated.
Restaurants will also be a lot easier to run if they dont need separate
smoking and nonsmoking sections, he said, and theyll be cleaner and smell
better.
However, he said that if one restaurant had a patio for smokers and a
similar one nearby didnt, the second might lose some business.
The Law
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ARTICLES/100109986/1177?p=3&tc=pg>
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Clearing the air
By James Romoser | Journal Reporter
Published: January 2, 2010
N.C. TAKES BIG STEP: NO-SMOKE LAW STARTS
Clearing the air Smokers must resist urge in public bars, eateries
Winston Salem Journal
<http://www2.journalnow.com/content/2010/jan/02/clearing-the-air/news/>
RALEIGH -- A turning point in North Carolina's long tobacco history has
arrived: Today is the first day of a strict new law that bans smoking in
restaurants and bars.
The ban was a long time coming. About 20 other states have similar
restrictions on public indoor smoking, and state Rep. Hugh Holliman,
D-Davidson, fought for years to pass a smoking ban in North Carolina.
He and other legislators finally succeeded last spring, striking a
compromise to get enough votes to pass the law. They argued that employees
and members of the public should not have to be exposed to secondhand
smoke, which can cause cancer.
The law takes effect today, and now anyone caught smoking in a restaurant
or bar could get a $50 fine. Restaurants or bars that repeatedly fail to
enforce the smoking ban could get a $250 fine.
For some people, the new law is a major change in a state where tobacco
still carries an iconic cultural status.
"For a lot of folks, especially over the age of 50, in their mind when
they go to a bar and have a beer or a drink, they ought to be able to have
a cigarette," said Lance Sawyer, the owner of First Street Draught House
in Winston-Salem.
But bar owners also said that their employees and nonsmoking customers
will enjoy the smoke-free environment. Several owners said they think the
smoking ban may increase business in the long run.
Smokers and businesses have had a long time to get used to the new law,
which was signed by Gov. Bev Perdue on May 19. New laws often go into
effect on the first day of a new year, but legislators didn't want to have
the smoking ban officially begin at the stroke of midnight on New Year's
Eve. So they made the effective date Jan. 2 instead of Jan. 1.
That means that, just before midnight last night, bar-side smokers across
the state snuffed out their last legal cigarette.
NC smoking ban at restaurants, bars detailed
The Associated Press
Posted: Friday, Jan. 01, 2010
Charlotte Observer
<http://www.charlotteobserver.com/232/story/1155180.html>
WHERE NOT TO SMOKE: All indoor areas of nearly every restaurant and bar in
the state are covered by the ban. Smoking also is prohibited in enclosed
areas of hotels and inns if the establishment prepares and serves food or
drink. Places such as convenience stores and bowling alleys also are
nonsmoking zones if the businesses comply with sanitation laws for
eateries.
EXCEPTIONS: Outside restaurant or bar patios are exempt from the ban
unless they have a roof and a wall or side coverings on all sides or all
sides but one. Nonprofit private clubs that serve food or drink such as
country clubs and those run by fraternal organizations like Kiwanis and
Elks largely can permit smoking. Hotels and inns under the ban can still
set aside 20 percent of their rooms for smokers. Cigar bars are exempt
when they meet several requirements, as well as Hookah bars that neither
provide food nor operate a bar.
ENFORCING THE RULE: Restaurants must post no-smoking signs, remove indoor
ashtrays and tell people to extinguish their cigarettes or cigars.
Customers who refuse to comply can face an infraction and pay a fine of up
to $50. A business that chooses not to comply will face two warnings from
local health officials before they can receive penalties of up to $200 a
day. There are no criminal charges.
Associations celebrates ban on smoking
Garner News
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celebrates+ban+on+smoking%20&id=5402581&instance=home_news_lead>
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The American Lung Association in North Carolina commends Governor Bev
Perdue and lung health champions Rep. Hugh Holliman and Sen. Bill Purcell,
as the law they supported goes into effect on Saturday, January 2,
prohibiting smoking in public restaurants and bars.
This will be an historic day for North Carolina and the health of its
citizens, said Deborah Bryan, North Carolina State Executive for the
American Lung Association. The new law is a landmark step forward in the
fight for healthy lungs and air in North Carolina.
There is no safe level of exposure to secondhand smoke. Every year,
secondhand smoke causes 35,000 deaths in the U.S. In North Carolina, more
than 1,600 adults, children and babies die each year from others' smoking.
Less exposure to secondhand smoke means fewer cases of lung cancer, heart
disease, and acute respiratory infections, along with less frequent and
less severe asthma attacks, for the nonsmoking public.
Texting While Driving, Smoking Target of '10 Laws
Texting while driving, public smoking, cooking with trans fats targeted in
states' 2010 laws
By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press Writer
MADISON, Wis. December 30, 2009 (AP)
Associated Press
ABC News
<http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=9449562>
Texting while driving, smoking in public and cooking with artery-clogging
trans fats will be that much harder under a bevy of state laws set to take
effect around the country on Friday.
Faced with huge budget shortfalls and little extra money to throw around,
state lawmakers exercised their (inexpensive) power to clamp down on
impolite, unhealthy and sometimes dangerous behaviors in 2009.
Even toy guns were targeted.
Among the most surprising new laws set to take effect in 2010 is a smoking
ban for bars and restaurants in North Carolina, the country's largest
tobacco producer that has a history steeped in tradition around the golden
leaf.
Starting Saturday stragglers get a one-day reprieve to puff away after
their New Year's Day meals smokers will no longer be allowed to light up
in North Carolina bars and restaurants. There are exceptions for country
clubs, Elks lodges and the like, but the change is a dramatic one for
North Carolina, whose tax coffers long depended on Big Tobacco.
Virginia approved a similar law that took effect Dec. 1, but it's more
accommodating to smokers because it allows establishments to offer areas
in which to light up as long as they have separate ventilating systems.
North Carolinas Smoking Ban Goes Into Effect
Submitted by Anna Tomova on 2010, January 2 - 14:01
Visit Bulgaria
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With the imposition of its smoking ban, North Carolina not only turns a
new page in its long history as a tobacco-growing state, it also joins
over 30-other states who have implemented similar bans in all bars and
restaurants.
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Even so, smoking ban is a big step forward for the largest
tobacco-producing state in the USA, whose major portion of tax revenues
comes from the tobacco industry, and according to the North Carolina
Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, its 255,000
tobacco-related jobs are nearly 40% of the nations total.
While, tobacco firms opposed the law, arguing it was up to businesses to
take the decision whether or not to go smoke-free, CDC says 46,000 heart
attacks and 3,400 lung-cancer deaths take place every year, as a result of
secondhand smoke.
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