Looking back on smoking - LubbockOnline.com

When the Lubbock City Council amended the city’s ordinance with provisions that banned smoking in restaurants in 2001, Tracee Brown, owner of Jazz- A Louisiana Kitchen, said it was a huge hassle to her business.

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In 2006, two years after smoking was not allowed in restaurants, Donna Bacchi and Philip Huang at the Texas Tech Health Sciences Center, came out with a study that found a significant increase in gross restaurant and restaurant bar revenues since the ban.

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