Eliminating Smoking in Bars, Restaurants, and Gaming Clubs in California: BREATH, the California Smoke-Free Bar Program
- 1 January 2001
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in Journal of Public Health Policy
- Vol. 22 (1) , 81-7
- https://doi.org/10.2307/3343554
Abstract
On January 1, 1998, California became the first state in the country to prohibit indoor smoking in nightspots, bars, bar/restaurant combinations, bingo parlors, cardrooms, and casinos on a statewide basis. This paper describes the activities which achieved this result, based on a program with three main goals: Ease the transition for business owners; Activate public support for the law; Defeat tobacco industry efforts to undermine the law. Important lessons learned from this campaign are presented.Keywords
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