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Eating in a smoke-free place is important to protect everyone at the establishment. Advocating for smoke-free bars and nightclubs is increasingly an option, particularly for employees. People can choose to go to bars and not drink, but people cannot choose to go to bars that allow smoking and not breathe secondhand smoke.
Steps for Success:
- Find out who owns and manages the restaurant, and talk to them to discuss what will encourage them to go smoke-free.
- Provide a list of other local or regional restaurants that have smoke-free policies.
- If necessary, ensure that owners are aware of how the Americans with Disabilities Act may apply to customers or employees that are smoke-sensitive.
- Share data about smoke-free restaurants and lack of economic harm, and be prepared to counter industry claims.
- Be prepared to recruit and work with asthmatic youth and adults that patron the establishment to advocate the need for a smoke-free establishment.
- Develop a plan to make good publicity and income for the establishment if it changes its policy.
- Determine if incentives such as a community recognition, positive media coverage or advertising, a special citation by the city council or Mayor will encourage policy change.
- Consider periodic newspaper advertisements thanking restaurants in the city that are smoke-free and encouraging patronage of those restaurants.
