Tavern Owners: City's Smoking Ban Has Hampered Business

Ban Began 5 Months Ago

Updated: 2:41 pm CST December 12, 2005

Five months after the city's smoking ban was implemented, tavern owners continue to blame the ban for declining business.

Joe Klinzing, spokesman for the Coalition to Save Madison Jobs, said that regular customers are no longer coming in and virtually no new customers are replacing them.

Klinzing said that he blames the smoking ban.

He said that because of slower business, payroll at his bar is down $17,000. He said that that means the regulation is actually taking money from the same workers the ban was designed to help.

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