Visit the Rhode Island Tobacco Control Network for their Rhode Island Smokefree Dining Guide . The Rhode Island Department of Health strongly recommends to parents not to take children into restaurants that allow smoking.
Tobacco smoke is hazardous to health.
It is especially hazardous to the health of children. The report, based on careful study of the best scientific evidence, concluded that exposure to ETS was widespread and caused devastating health effects, especially among children. Since then, new scientific evidence has only strengthened the EPA's conclusions. State laws were passed to prohibit smoking in schools and many public places, and to protect the atmospheric environment of non-smokers in the workplace. Many businesses voluntarily prohibited smoking indoors.