{"id":481,"date":"2011-03-15T15:07:34","date_gmt":"2011-03-15T21:07:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theloungeisback.wordpress.com\/?p=481"},"modified":"2014-01-15T20:55:53","modified_gmt":"2014-01-15T20:55:53","slug":"wisconsin-bartenders-love-wisconsin-smoking-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/?p=481","title":{"rendered":"Wisconsin bartenders love Wisconsin smoking ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A<a href=\"http:\/\/www4.uwm.edu\/cuir\/research\/upload\/WI_Bartender_Study_2010.pdf\"> study<\/a> just released by the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee showed that bartenders in that state are having fewer health problems and are more in favour of a smoking ban than before it was first implemented last year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/WI_NoSmoke_NAV_300.gif?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1804\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/?attachment_id=1804\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/WI_NoSmoke_NAV_300.gif?fit=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"300,300\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"WI_NoSmoke_NAV_300\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/WI_NoSmoke_NAV_300.gif?fit=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1804\" alt=\"WI_NoSmoke_NAV_300\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/WI_NoSmoke_NAV_300.gif?resize=300%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This study is pretty technical, but if you go to the conclusions, it shows that bartenders report fewer respiratory issues &#8212; wheezing or whistling in chest, shortness of breath, cough first thing in the morning, cough during the rest of the day and night, cough up any phlegm, red or irritated eyes, runny nose, nose irritation, or sneezing, and sore or scratchy throat (fuck, I got half these symptoms when a chain smoker moved into a unit beneath me.).<\/p>\n<p>Overall, 72 percent of bartenders were in favour of the smoking ban, compared to 64 percent before the ban was imposed. Among non-smokers, the number jumped from 77 percent to 81 percent.<\/p>\n<p>Get this however, among smokers, support for the smoking ban went up from 46 percent to 60 percent. That means a majority of smoking bartenders &#8230; is in favour of the smoking ban. Wicked!<\/p>\n<p>Wisconsin had one of the bloodiest battles in the country a couple of years ago to get a smoking ban. It took several tries to get a bill passed and there was of course a lot of teeth-gnashing from Libertarians and the Wisconsin Tavern Association. From all reports that I have from my sources in Wisconsin, \ud83d\ude09 the law has had nary a negative effect on the state.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smokefreewi.org\/\">Smokefree Wisconsin<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A study just released by the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee showed that bartenders in that state are having fewer health problems and are more in favour of a smoking ban than before it was first implemented last year. This study is pretty technical, but if you go to the conclusions, it shows that bartenders report fewer &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/?p=481\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Wisconsin bartenders love Wisconsin smoking ban<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1804,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[60,77],"tags":[176,197],"class_list":["post-481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-smoking-bans-2","category-wisconsin","tag-smoking-bans","tag-wisconsin-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/WI_NoSmoke_NAV_300.gif?fit=300%2C300&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4hpEa-7L","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":297,"url":"https:\/\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/?p=297","url_meta":{"origin":481,"position":0},"title":"New study: Wisconsin smoking ban not hurting hospitality industry","author":"Pepe Lepew","date":"January 25, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"A new economic impact study done by the University of Wisconsin looked at the five cities in Wisconsin in light of that state's year-old smoking ban. 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