1526 Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2011, 8 3.3. Attitudes Towards Smoking Bans in Hospitality Venues Over 85% of subjects supported prohibiting smoking in schools and public vehicles, 73% in hospitals, and 58% in offices. However, only 17% supported prohibiting smoking in restaurants and 11% supported in bars, and their support for prohibiting smoking was much lower than their support for restricting smoking (Table 3). Table 3. Smoking policy favored for public places by restaurant and bar owners, five Chinese cities, 2007. Smokers (%) Non-smokers (%) All subjects (%) Prohibit Restrict Total Prohibit Restrict Total Prohibit Restrict Total School 84.3 15.0 99.3 87.6 11.8 99.4 86.4 13.0 99.4 Public vehicle 87.4 10.1 97.5 87.4 11.2 98.6 87.4 10.8 98.2 Hospital 69.6 30.4 100 74.7 24.8 99.4 73.3 26.3 99.6 Office 49.3 45.1 94.4 62.7 32.8 95.5 58.1 36.9 95.0 Restaurant 10.8 64.7 75.5 20.2 63.2 83.4 16.8 63.8 80.6 Bar 6.3 46.9 53.2 14.1 52.7 66.8 11.4 50.3 61.7 Notes: In mainland China, smoking is nationally prohibited in public vehicles, and classrooms, activity rooms and dorms for minors and smoking is usually restricted in some areas of hospitals. By the time of this study, smoking in offices and restaurants and bars is not regulated in the five cities; Results presented in this table represent simple aggregation of the survey results, and no sampling weighting was used. As shown in Table 4, although 80% of subjects supported prohibiting or restricting smoking in restaurants and 62% supported this for bars, only 53% of the subjects were willing to do so in their own establishments in the absence of government regulations. Fifty five percent of subjects thought that prohibiting or restricting smoking would reduce hospitality revenues. Table 4. Owner’s and manager’s attitudes towards banning smoking in restaurants and bars, five Chinese cities, 2007. Total City Beijing Wuhan Xi’an Kunming Guiyang total 814 161 172 161 160 160 prohibit 137 (16.8) 36 (22.4) 26 (15.2) 36 (22.4) 18 (11.3) 21 (13.1) What kind of smoking policy do you think restaurants/bars should have? a n (%) restaurants bars restrict allow prohibit restrict 519 (63.7) 106 (13.0) 92 (11.3) 411 (50.6) 106 (65.8) 89 (52.0) 100 (62.1) 107 (66.9) 117 (73.1) 11 (6.8) 45 (26.3) 11 (6.8) 26 (16.3) 13 (8.1) 26 (16.3) 20 (11.7) 18 (11.2) 11 (6.9) 17 (10.6) 88 (55.0) 67 (39.2) 78 (48.4) 81 (50.6) 97 (60.6) allow 195 (24.0) 21 (13.1) 67 (39.2) 32 (19.9) 51 (31.9) 24 (15.0) Willing to do so b n (%) 433 (53.3) 108 (67.9) 83 (48.3) 76 (47.2) 76 (47.5) 90 (56.3)