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Article: EDEN PRAIRIE SMOKING BAN; Eden Prairie company may rather move than switch.(BUSINESS)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
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- August 30, 2002
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Byline: Terry Fiedler; Staff Writer
Paul Ansolabehere is a nonsmoker and marathon runner who regards smoking as "a terrible habit."
But he's prepared to sue Eden Prairie or move a 350-worker manufacturing facility from the city if it approves a proposal that would ban smoking in private businesses.
Ansolabehere says the smoking ban, which would be the first in the state to apply to businesses of all kinds, would put his Anagram International at a big disadvantage in retaining and recruiting workers, such a pressmen. About 75 percent of his pressmen are smokers.
"Many of them are regularly offered jobs by competitors," said ...