Take a look at the Virginia Department of Health. The department is now including the smoking status of restaurants in the information reported on health inspections. And they have statistics on the percentage of non-smoking restaraunts by locality. For example, Norfolk has 64% while Petersburg has only 4%. Wow. Must be a lot of smokers in Petersburg 😉
The website is quite user-friendly. I was quickly able to sort all of the Norfolk restaurants by smoking status. Took me a bit of scrolling to get to the ones that allow smoking 😦
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Since we’re on the topic, Vivian, people who love you and care about your health hope you’ll kick the habit and would do everything we could to support you if you decide to quit.
I just knew that was coming 🙂
Yeah, it’s on my to-do list.
Anyone notice that Virginia’s Department of Health has outsourced its website to Canada? (Now maybe if we could do the same thing for our pharmacies and healthcare . . .)
And now that I look at it, that list (for Arlington, anyway) is completely unreliable. So wrong, in fact, that I wonder if we’re looking at a test run that shouldn’t be public at this point.
Hmm – unreliable? Or is it that the inspections may not have caught up with the info on the site?
The Lynchburg list looks pretty accurate. I just wish that I could move The Cavalier up the list a bit.
Dunno. There are restaurants listed as non-smoking that have never been non-smoking. Ah well.