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Why does Big Tobacco trick hospitality into fighting clean indoor air?
- Other business sectors have been quicker to see that secondhand smoke harms workers — and costs owners money.
- Smokefree restaurants deeply undermine smoking's social acceptability — basic to tobacco marketing.
- Bars attract Big Tobacco's young adult demographic target — and link smoking with social status.
- Unpopular Big Tobacco needs another industry as a political front — so it highjacks "legitimate" hospitality groups and sets up fake ones.
How does Big Tobacco manipulate the hospitality industry?
- Falsely claims smokefree measures will ruin restaurants and bars.
- Highjacks national and state hospitality groups as propaganda vehicles.
- Lures owners into buying expensive "accommodation" ventilation systems.
- Uses groups and owners as fronts to fight cost — free smokefree measures.
Why does Big Tobacco hide behind hospitality industry fronts and work at arm's length with allies to block smokefree measures?
- Big Tobacco is America's most distrusted industry. Its open opposition to smokefree measures actually boosts the majority voting for them.
- Many hospitality groups take money from Big Tobacco. If they don't, Big Tobacco quickly sets up its own fake fronts.
- Big Tobacco fields a swarm of "experts" to push its agenda, but those known to be in its pay lose credibility — and usefulness.
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