CHD Expert Group - New Study of CHD Expert on Smoking Ban: Hard Cuts for 28 percent of German Pubs and Restaurants

Store this angel in big sizeSurvey of 550 restaurant administrator in Lower Saxony and Baden-Wuerttemberg shows: Over 70% can’t advance in own smoker lounges

Hamburg/Germany, November 27, 2007 - For added than 28 percent of the German pubs and restaurants in Lower Saxony and Baden-Wuerttemberg the smoker ban agency harder cuts in about-face with bedfellow declines of over ten percent. Since August this year in the accommodation industry of this two German states smokers accept to smoke alfresco or in abstracted apartment or lounges if available. For the added German states – except Hesse – smoker bans for pubs and restaurants are in alertness and will be imposed in aboriginal 2008.

This is one of the after-effects of the aboriginal abstraction on the smoker ban’s aftereffect on pubs and restaurants in Germany. In October 2007 over 550 restaurant and pub managers in Lower Saxony and Baden-Wuerttemberg accept been surveyed by CHD Expert Group apropos their adventures with the smoker ban.

“For 43 percent of the pubs and restaurants there is a cogent abatement in guests and marks the baby bedfast with alone one bedfellow allowance as losers of the smoker ban,” Managing Director of CHD, Thilo Lambracht says. The bedfellow abatement of ten percent and added for 28 percent of the pubs and restaurants could cilia their business archetypal dramatically, Mr. Lambracht credibility out. Not a few of them are bedevilled by bankruptcy.

More than 70 percent of the pubs and restaurants aren’t able to advance in abstracted smoker rooms. Only one-fifth could acknowledge a abstracted allowance for smokers.

In Germany a smoker ban is acquired for about all accessible apartment and houses back autumn this year. The smoker bans for pubs and restaurants depend on several laws of the 16 German states.

Overview of smoker bans in pubs and restaurants in Europe

Ireland – back March 2004
Scotland – back March 2006
England, Wales, North Ireland – back summer 2007
Italy – back January 2005
Malta – back April 2005
Sweden – back June 2005
France – to be accepted in January 2008
Finland – back June 2007

Source: Green Paper of the European Commission "Towards a Europe chargeless from tobacco smoke: action options at EU level", January 2007

Mr. Thilo Lambracht, lambracht.t@chd-expert.de
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