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Persuading a Restaurant To Go Smokefree

Smokefree Dining Is Best and The Smart Restaurateur were written to provide the facts and arguments to persuade a restaurant to go smokefree. New Jersey GASP sends these publications to restaurants directly, but they’re particularly effective when delivered by a patron (or a health inspector). And there’s lots of other information and help for you elsewhere on this website and in our publications.

Tobacco Scam (www.tobaccoscam.ucsf.edu) offers extensive information on Big Tobacco’s use and abuse of the restaurant and bar industry.

We don’t have an online, step-by-step guide about how you can persuade a restaurant to go smokefree, but our staff has helped hundreds of restaurants go smokefree and has helped many people persuade restaurants to go smokefree. Call us and we’ll do our best to help you.

We officially work 9 to 5, Eastern time (we often start earlier and end later), and the answering machine’s always on. We’re at 908 273-9368.