Project Updates
☑️ We identified all of the restaurants in the City of San Diego.
☑️ We took a random sample of 300 of these restaurants.
☑️ We called the 300 restaurants to see if they had outdoor dining.
☑️ We asked the 171 restaurants who had outdoor dining if people can smoke or vape on the patio. 61 of them did.
☑️ We visited 19 restaurants in the City of San Diego.
☑️ We interviewed 8 restaurant owners and managers.
☑️ We have begun recruiting restaurant staff for interviews.
Everyone deserves to eat out in a clean environment, but currently not all outdoor dining areas in San Diego are smokefree. The Policy Center wants to show policymakers why a citywide smokefree outdoor dining policy can protect restaurant workers and patrons.
We are conducting four Rapid Response Projects to answer these questions:
1. Does the City of San Diego support a smokefree outdoor dining policy?
We are conducting a flash poll of San Diego residents.
2. How do stakeholders feel about a citywide smokefree outdoor dining policy?
We are interviewing restaurant owners and workers, hospitality employees, and City Council members.
3. Are restaurant workers and patrons exposed to second- and thirdhand smoke?
We are collecting surface, air, and hand samples at restaurants in the City of San Diego.
4. Are there other successful smokefree outdoor dining policies in San Diego County?
We are reviewing existing policies in other cities in San Diego County, and we will interview representatives from city governments, the County Board of Supervisors, and selected CTCP-funded programs.
Deliverables:
- An infographic of flash poll and interview results
- A brief report summarizing the results of environmental sampling
- Presentations for community and advocacy organizations seeking a broad public smoking ban in San Diego
- A locally-adapted model policy based on Public Health Law Center model language and the survey results