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Consumer Reports: Eau Claire hospital ranked best in the nation
Jump to full article: WQOW ABC 18 (Eau Claire, WI), 2009-08-07
Intro: Some Wisconsin hotel owners say the new smoking ban will not only snuff out the smoke it will also put out their guests.
The statewide smoking ban takes effect next summer and it will mean an end to designated smoking rooms. Hotel owners are hoping to convince lawmakers to give them an exemption. At the plaza hotel in Eau Claire, crews have already started converting smoking rooms. Each room costs about $100 to convert and management says it's already affecting business.
Plaza Hotel Assistant Manager Jeremiah Reichert says, "Truck drivers and we have railroaders and stuff and they stay in their same room, same number every week and just today we swapped one room to non-smoking and I had to move a guest, all 8 reservations to another room."
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