Public Smoking Banned Cigarette smoke contains over 4,000 chemicals. Of those chemicals, 40 of them have been proven to cause cancer (SWAT). It’s no wonder why a bill is being passed to ban smoking in all public places. However, this will have the greatest effect on restaurants across the nation. The next great smoking debate will decide whether you can “puff” in restaurants. In a democracy, like the one we live in, the majority rules, while …showed first 75 words of 1088 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1088 total…diseases and this ban could only help to reduce that statistic. Customers do not walk out of a restaurant because it had no smoking area; they walk out because they are unsatisfied. Restaurants need not look at this ban as something that could put them out of business. It all depends on how they handle it so it could bring in more revenue in the future than not having the ban brought in the past.