Restaurant owners' revenue expectations following regulation
| Increase in revenues % (95% CI) |
Decrease in revenues % (95% CI) | Revenues unchanged % (95% CI) |
Do not know/ no answer % (95% CI) | |
| Open smoking section (n=124) | 3 (0 to 6) | 14 (8 to 20) | 75 (67 to 83) | 8 (3 to 13) |
| Closed smoking section (n=7) | 0 | 0 | 86 (60 to 100) | 14 (0 to 40) |
| Closed ventilated section (n=14) | 0 | 0 | 86 (67 to 100) | 14 (0 to 33) |
| Total (n=145) | 3 (0 to 5) | 12 (6 to 17) | 77 (70 to 83) | 9 (4 to 14) |
| Restaurants without policy (n=256) | 5 (2 to 7) | 60 (54 to 66) | 24 (19 to 29) | 11 (7 to 15) |
Test of difference in proportions between samples for any policy versus no policy: χ2 = 110.52, p = 0.001.