Clearing The Air

Monday, June 11, 2012

Current U.S. Dept of Labor statistics show the official unemployment rate is 8.2%, yet in the hospitality industry the unemployment rate is 9.7%

Clearly then, the hospitality industry is suffering from higher unemployment rate than the U.S. unemployment rate average.

That doesn't seem possible though does it? I mean the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) funded at least one lobbyist (TobaccoScamUSCSF) to 'educate' hospitality owners that smoking bans are a boon for business.

http://web.archive.org/web/20030414125622/http://www.tobaccoscam.ucsf.edu/pdf/constantly_ad.pdf

Btw, Pierre's Restaurant in Morristown, NJ, which is featured in the pdf above promoting smoking bans as 'good for business' went out of business in 2009 according to comments on this website.

Who funded TobaccoScamUSCSF.edu? .....the Nicoderm, Nicorette, Nicotrol benefactor RWJF of course.......gee we wonder why they would do such a thing?

http://cleanairquality.blogspot.com/2007/02/smoking-bans-good-public-policy-or.html

In fact RWJF president Dr. Risa LaVizzo Mourey writes here that they (smoking bans) have been good for business.

And she continues: In the case of clean indoor air, good public health leads to good business. The Zagat survey finds that New York restaurant-goers are eating out and spending more than they were two years ago and that restaurant openings have far exceeded closings.

New York's experience mirrors that of many states and municipalities around the country that have instituted smoke-free workplace laws. .....numerous independent, objective and peer-reviewed studies of smoke-free restaurant laws show there is no long-term negative impact on restaurant sales or employment from smoke-free laws.

The lobbying activity by RWJF above is/ was blatantly false and misleading information plain and simple as we now know:

http://cleanairquality.blogspot.com/2007/01/100-bars-and-restaurants-put-out-of.html

http://cleanairquality.blogspot.com/2012/05/michigan-has-seen-300-bars-restaurants.html

http://www.smokersclub.com/banloss3.htm

http://cleanairquality.blogspot.com/2009/03/worldwide-economic-meltdown-and.html

And should allow the tens perhaps hundreds of thousands of hospitality owners, employees, suppliers etc. to hold RWJF and its surrogates responsible for promoting lies that led to financial ruin.