Air quality in restaurants and taverns has improved 92 percent following this summer’s enactment of a statewide workplace smoking ban, according to a state report released this week. The report’s results also show that dangerous small-particle levels thought to cause cancer declined to safe levels, giving supporters of the law new ammunition for arguing in favor of the law’s potential public health benefits. [caption id="attach ... Jump to full article >>

Thanks to the recession, demographic changes and advances in health care, the retirement landscape is shifting so fast that it is easy for today’s fiftysomethings to lose their footing. Clive Butler of Aviva, the pension group, said too many of them were still chasing an “unrealistic dream that is well past its sell-by date”. For people approaching retirement, now is the time to indulge in some serious crystal ball gazing. Las ... Jump to full article >>

How the restaurant and bar smoking ban will affect restaurant or tobacco revenues is unclear. Other states with similar bans say business falls off, then resumes without a haze. Prevention Partners say the Jan. 2, 2010 ban, and the state and federal tax hike in 2009 will keep an estimated 89,000 children a year from starting to smoke tobacco. Added to a state tobacco-free schools and hospitals law already in place, this new smoking ban prompted ... Jump to full article >>