Patronize Smokefree Restaurants.
Tell Restaurants that you want smokefree dining.
More that 85% of New Jerseyans are nonsmokers.
The Surgeon General and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
have concluded that tobacco smoke causes disease,
including cancer and heart disease,
in nonsmokers.
It's good business to provide a pleasant environment but foolish
to overlook tobacco smoke pollution,
which assaults customers with every breath.
Ask your local and state legislators to make all restaurants smokefree.
Restaurants are required to be sanitary and safe.
Of course they should be smokefree.
This is not a pipe dream.
More that 125 cities and counties in eight states,
including Los Angeles with 7,000 restaurants,
and Wake County in North Carolina,
a major tobacco-growing state,
plus the state of Vermont,
have laws requiring restaurants to be entirely smokefree.
(These laws are being passed at the rate of one a week.)
New Jersey's restaurant law is the weakest in the nation.