Smoking ban has minimal effect on bar revenues after two years

More than two years after Kansas City banished smokers from restaurants and bars, establishment owners can’t complain about lost revenue. Well, they can, but they’ll be whining about a made-up problem.

The Health Care Foundation of Greater Kansas City says a study it funded and conducted  by University of Illinois-Chicago economics professors John Tauras and Frank

J. Chaloupka shows that people still went out to eat and tip a few, even if they had to go outside to smoke. And the air inside the smoke-free restaurants is much better.