Snuffed Out

Publication Date: 2005-06-29

• Author:LAURA WYLDE
• Publication:Boise Weekly

Boise restaurants say smoking ban inequitable but rarely damaging to business

Most restaurateurs and barkeepers say they can breathe easy, since sales haven't significantly dropped in the year since the Idaho Clean Indoor Air Law went into effect. The bill that demanded snuffing tobacco use at nearly every indoor facility in the state was made law last July 1, making owners nervous that customers would be driven away. But most agree that hasn't happened.