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Statewide Smoking Ban's Impact On Business Minimal

Like most tavern owners, Pat Nohelty was more than a little worried when Wisconsin's statewide smoking cigarettes ban went into effect last July.

With half his patrons dedicated smokers, Nohelty assumed ending something as integral to Wisconsin bar culture as booze itself would be bad for business.

But when the smoke cigarettes cleared, it turns out he was only half right — while he's lost some business at his Kim's 5 Corners Tavern in rural Sheboygan Falls since the ban started, he's also been gaining dinner customers, no doubt because of the fresh air.

"The nonsmokers are bringing in their wives and kids, when they wouldn't have before," said Nohelty, a smoker who remains ambivalent about the new law. "We're not doing as well as we did with smoking cigarettes, but it's coming back with our food sales."

According to industry officials, Nohelty is not alone, as fears that the smoking cigarettes ban would damage a business sector already hampered by the recession are proving mostly untrue.

That's not to suggest there weren't individual businesses that were hurt by the ban, but data shows that in the long run, going smoke-free appears to be having a minimal impact on the bar and restaurant industry as a whole.

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