It’s not easy to figure out effects of smoking ban

THE Government recently released figures that seemed to indicate the New York city smoking ban was ‘good’ for business.

Mon, 19 Jul, 2004 - 01:00

I decided to find out if this was the case by checking. Not being able to find historical revenue numbers I used the next best thing, employment statistics for Food Service and Drinking Places available from the US Department of Labor.

In New York city there was a 0.6% increase in employment from the start of the ban in January 2003 until January 2004. Therefore the ban helped business - or so it seemed.

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