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Department of Revenue updates show strengthening trend of change in competitive structure due to smoking ban
Jump to full article: PR Newswire, 2007-09-10
Author: SOURCE Colorado Coalition for Equal Rights
Intro: Recent
updates to public information in Colorado Department of Revenue public
reports reveal the trend for diminishing rates of increase in bar trade
revenues continues, while increases in restaurant sector sales accelerate.
"The most recent comparative sales data for the first quarter of 2007
confirms a trend that we first identified early this summer," said Allen
Campbell, Senior Vice President of the Coalition for Equal Rights, a
nonprofit
501(c)(3) bar and tavern trade group headquartered in Colorado Springs.
Campbell said the well-established changes in competitive hospitality
trade sector revenues are important in light of OSHA criteria for
regulatory economic impact. OSHA generally considers a regulatory action to
be not economically feasible if it would cause a decrease in related
industry or sector revenue of one percent or cause a decline in profits in
excess of ten percent. OSHA also usually considers a regulatory action not
economically feasible if the action would cause a change in the competitive
structure of an industry.
"The Colorado smoking ban violates all three OSHA economic feasibility
criteria," Campbell said.
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