05-30-2008, 11:36 AM
In Tyler the smoking ban starts June 1.....and bans it in Businesses and 20 ft from doors(or something like that). Bar owners and restaurants were against it, naturnally. I just wish they would ban it from nursing homes. The nursing homes put their residents in a tiny room with an exhaust fan to smoke. You can cut the smoke with a knife.
Has your city banded smoking? The stats that Morningstar has really surprises me...that smoking has gone down to 1 in 5 from 50%.
Stats from Morningstar:
The bigger, long-term problem for all three companies is that the industry itself is in secular decline. The prevalence of cigarette smoking has decreased during the last 50 years as the American public has increasingly been made aware of the dangers associated with the habit. This has reduced the number of smokers in the U.S. from nearly half the adult population in the 1950s to roughly one in five today. Sales peaked at around 640 billion sticks (or 32 billion packs of cigarettes) in 1981, with volume declining around 2.5% per year ever since. Although the rate of decline has been closer to 3.2% per year since the MSA was signed in 1998, it had actually been trending lower (to about 3.0% annually) during the course of the last five years. That all changed this year, as first-quarter volumes declined 4%-5%. The industry now expects that rate to hold for the remainder of 2008.
Has your city banded smoking? The stats that Morningstar has really surprises me...that smoking has gone down to 1 in 5 from 50%.
Stats from Morningstar:
The bigger, long-term problem for all three companies is that the industry itself is in secular decline. The prevalence of cigarette smoking has decreased during the last 50 years as the American public has increasingly been made aware of the dangers associated with the habit. This has reduced the number of smokers in the U.S. from nearly half the adult population in the 1950s to roughly one in five today. Sales peaked at around 640 billion sticks (or 32 billion packs of cigarettes) in 1981, with volume declining around 2.5% per year ever since. Although the rate of decline has been closer to 3.2% per year since the MSA was signed in 1998, it had actually been trending lower (to about 3.0% annually) during the course of the last five years. That all changed this year, as first-quarter volumes declined 4%-5%. The industry now expects that rate to hold for the remainder of 2008.