Restaurant Press Releases

New Smoke-Free Restaurant and Bar Implementation Handbook Available

CONTACT:
Paul McIntyre
(916) 780-0226

ROSEVILLE, CA - The nonprofit group Kids Involuntarily Inhaling Secondhand Smoke (KIISS) has announced the availability of a new Smoke-Free Restaurants & Bars Implementation Handbook. The handbook is designed to help restaurants and bars make the transition to tobacco-free environments whether required by regulation, or done so voluntarily.

The handbook contains 46 pages of information on how to deal with customers, staff, media, enforcement officials, and others in making the transition to 100 percent smoke-free eating and drinking areas. It also contains a CD with signage and artwork that can be used in printing smoke-free materials for restaurant and bar owners.

KIISS President & CEO Paul McIntyre said, "With restaurants and bars going smoke-free at such a rapid pace nowadays, it can be a dramatic change. Educational materials such as this handbook, which were previously unavailable, will help restaurateurs and bar owners make that transition."

The number of restaurants and bars that have gone smoke-free in the United States has doubled in the last two years alone. Smoke-free workplace laws now cover approximately one-third of the U.S. population.

Copies of the Smoke-Free Restaurants and Bars Implementation Handbook are available free of charge, while supplies last, by contacting KIISS at (916) 780-0226 or www.kiiss.org.

KIISS was founded in 2000 by those involved in passing the nation's first 100 percent statewide workplace smoking ban in California in 1994.