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Article: RESTAURATEURS ANGRY OVER SMOKING PROPOSALS CHANGES WOULD RESULT IN A BAN IN MORE MADISON RESTAURANTS.(LOCAL/WISCONSIN)
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- The Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI)
- Article date:
- August 12, 2002
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Byline: Matt Mullins Wisconsin State Journal
Madison restaurant owners are afire with indignation over a recent city effort to ban smoking in more eateries.
The proposed changes would effectively reclassify some bars as restaurants, thereby subjecting the businesses to tighter no-smoking regulations. Other proposals would end exemptions that permit smoking in restaurants only at free-standing bars or in separate, ventilated rooms by Jan. 1, 2004.
Last week, Mayor Sue Bauman expressed support for the proposed regulations, pointing particularly to the health of restaurant workers and others. Marsh Shapiro, owner of Nitty Gritty Restaurant and Bar ...