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• Wisconsin's new ban will snuff smokers' haven 

Doyle plans to sign bill banning workplace smoking in July 2010
Jump to full article: Saint Paul (MN) Pioneer Press, 2009-05-15
Author: Andy Rathbun

Intro:

Crossing state lines into Wisconsin has been an option for many Minnesotans dead-set on smoking in bars. But that will change next year under the state's recently passed smoking ban.

Gov. Jim Doyle plans to sign the ban, which will make smoking illegal in almost every workplace in the state when it takes effect July 2010.

Mike Maguire, spokesman for the American Cancer Society, calls the new policy "a step forward for the health of folks in Wisconsin."

But walk into Ellie's On Main in Hudson, and you'd be hard pressed to find someone who agrees with him.

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