Editorial: State smoking ban catches a fresh wind

Publication Date: 2005-03-17

• Author:Editorial
• Publication:Denver Post

Colorado business leaders have joined health organizations to support a statewide ban on smoking in public workplaces and indoor places, including bars and restaurants. It's a case where good health is also good business...

State Sens. Dan Grossman, D-Denver, and Jim Isgar, D-Hesperus, joined Reps. Gary Lindstrom, D-Breckenridge, and Mark Larson, R-Cortez, to sponsor the Colorado Indoor Clean Air Act. The Colorado Restaurant Association supports the measure because it prefers a "level playing field" for businesses to what is becoming a crazy-quilt of conflicting local regulations...

In our view, a particularly important reason for the Indoor Clean Air Act is to protect workers in bars, restaurants and other enclosed public spaces.