Wiggie's Busted for Having Smokers (Madison, WI Smoking Ban)

Madison.com ^ | February 24, 2006 | Bill Novak

[Diana in Wisconsin]

If anyone is going to challenge the Madison Smoke Gnatzies, it'll be Wiggie! Wiggie's is a total Blue Collar Worker bar whose customers are mainly the guys from the meat packing plant (Oscar Mayer) next door. The only way someone would "complain" about this, is if some "Chablis drinking Quiche eater" accidentally wandered in there, which would be odd because it's a pretty depressed part of town.

Good Luck, Wiggie! Even we non-smokers want this stupid ban overturned.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Ping!

[oyasuminasai]

I don't smoke, and rather like being able to go out to the bar and not come home smelling like a chimney.

[meanie monster]

lol, run Wiggie,,,,run!!!

[L98Fiero]

"I don't smoke, and rather like being able to go out to the bar and not come home smelling like a chimney."

Then stay the hell out of Wiggie's bar.

[SheLion]

Thanks for the ping!

[oyasuminasai]

We have the same ban where I live, and all it means is smokers have to go outside.

It's not a big deal, if you freak out and throw glassware and burgers because you're told to take it outside then you seriously have problems.

[SheLion]

Then stay the hell out of Wiggie's bar.

[Minnesoootan]

I think there should be a law non-smokers have to take it outside.

[Trust but Verify]

On top of this and the increase in the minimum wage, the City of Madison, (AKA Center of Evil Emanations) is proposing mandating all businesses who employ more than 5 people give their workers 9 paid sick days per year.

Is this still America?

[oyasuminasai]

Government has the right to legislate what a restarant can do with regard to the public health.

Government has made its wishes known, you can take it to the polls but you cannot simply flout the law.

[sittnick]

Would it be possible to make Wiggie's into a private club, so that "members" could smoke?

I remember going to a Red Lobster in a dry county in Texas. Beer was not available, but you could joing a club and get a locker, and put your own hootch in it. Just a thought.

Are the fraternal orgs exempt? (VFW, K of C, Moose, etc.)

[traditional1]

""I don't smoke, and rather like being able to go out to the bar and not come home smelling like a chimney." Then stay the hell out of Wiggie's bar."

Exactly ! Political correctness gone wild, and if un-natural sex perversion is a "lifestyle", then smoking is merely another "cause" for the "enlightened" to pounce upon to rid society of the un-PC choices Americans are Constitutionally allowed to make.

Interestingly, the multitude of non-smoking complainers are the same ones who support corn-holers and worse.......

[steveo]

learn to drink at home. problem solved.

[ronnied]

I don't smoke, and rather like being able to go out to the bar and not come home smelling like a chimney.



and what do you smell like now, may i ask....

[traditional1]

"Government has the right to legislate what a restarant can do with regard to the public health. "

BZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZTTTTTTTTTT. Wrong, again.

Try banning faggots from your restaurant (the ones who carry AIDS and other STD's) and see where it gets you in compliance with "protecting public health" in your establishment.

[spinestein]

I don't smoke either, but it concerns me greatly that the anti-smoking zealots have so much power as to be able to tell private citizens what they can and can't do in their private homes and businesses in the spurious name of "public health".

[kevao]

Public health officers working undercover went into Wiggie's on both occasions

Something just seems soooooo wrong about this. In America, that is....

[L98Fiero]

I'm saying there must be a market for non-smoking bars as there is smoking ones. Why some smart person hasn't opened a chain of non-smoking bars is beyond me. I suspect there isn't enough regular business from that crowd to support many non-smoking drinking establishments. I believe the market is supposed to work these things out, not the government.
Also, when I go to an establishment, I don't want to be treated, by law, like less of a person that those who don't smoke.

I don't believe that laws banning smoking in privately owned establishments should even be permitted.

[spinestein]

[Government has the right to legislate what a restaurant can do with regard to the public health.]

When the health department mandates that restaurants sanitize their dishes properly and not have rats infesting their store rooms, then that is understandable.

When the city government determines that 2nd hand smoke is so annoying that it MUST be a health hazard and consequently bans patrons from smoking under penalty of law, then that goes too far.