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Madison and a number of other Wisconsin cities have adopted smoking bans in restaurants and bars.
Right now, Monona city ordinances only prohibit smoking near fireworks, in public parks if it is posted, and minors can't smoke anywhere. In other words, bars and restaurants don't have to restrict smoking at all.
When I ran for reelection nearly two years ago, I said I thought the market place was doing a decent job regulating indoor smoking - most if not all restaurants have much larger nonsmoking areas than smoking. I said I had not heard any support for a smoking ban - and I have still only heard from one resident. However, smoking is a public health issue, especially for the workers in the foods and drinks industry.
Would you support a smoking ban in Monona? A limited ban for restaurants only?
Sunday, October 08, 2006
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No other employer would get away with exposing workers to an atmosphere as polluted as a smoky bar. Any factory would be shut down in an instant by OSHA. In california it was the state OSHA that regulated smoking out of bars, but they allowed an exception: owner operated bars without employees could have smokers. It is a consistent policy that makes sense.
ReplyDeleteIt,s time we have a total smoking ban in monona
ReplyDeleteBy 'total smoking ban', what do you mean? No smoking anywhere? No smoking in any public space? No smoking in bars and restaurants?
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