{"id":695,"date":"2010-05-22T17:26:42","date_gmt":"2010-05-22T17:26:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cabriostructures.com\/wisconsin-smoking-ban\/"},"modified":"2010-05-22T17:26:42","modified_gmt":"2010-05-22T17:26:42","slug":"wisconsin-smoking-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cabriostructures.com\/?p=695","title":{"rendered":"Wisconsin Smoking Ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Cabreeco Offers Solution for Upcoming Wisconsin Smoking Ban Taking Effect on July 5, 2010<\/h3>\n<div id=\"ctl07_control2_htmlCode\">\n<h4>May 22, 2010 | River Falls, WI<\/h4>\n<p>Letter regarding the upcoming State Smoking Bans:<\/p><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>Dear Kent,<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I can\u2019t encourage people to purchase your product, but I do believe that your product meets the requirements under the law for a sheltered outdoor area in which smoking could be allowed.\u00a0 I have no doubt about that.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>There is much more certainty about the law at this point because the Wisconsin Dept. of Commerce has announced that it will no longer pursue the substantive changes in that proposed rule I sent you some time ago.\u00a0 All we need to look at now is the 2009 Wis. Act 12, and the minor change passed recently clarifying that a solid wall is a \u201csubstantial wall\u201d and that the 25-percent openings to actually have to allow air flow.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Even if there were more changes to the law, the Cabreeze\u2122 structure is flexible enough to accommodate any changes I could imagine.\u00a0 Under current law, it\u2019s required to have 25 percent airflow through two sides, OR to have the roof open.\u00a0 Even if more airflow were required at some point in the future, say a requirement of 50 percent air flow or even 70 percent, the Cabreeze\u2122 would accommodate that.\u00a0 Or, the sides could be left closed and the roof opened.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I really don\u2019t see any cause for concern related to the law and possible changes.\u00a0 Smoking will not be allowed in indoor areas, but will be allowed in outside structures that meet these airflow requirements.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Sincerely,<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Pete Hanson<br \/>\nDirector of Government Relations<\/p>\n<div>Wisconsin Restaurant Association<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cabreeco Offers Solution for Upcoming Wisconsin Smoking Ban Taking Effect on July 5, 2010 May 22, 2010 | River Falls, WI Letter regarding the upcoming State Smoking Bans: Dear Kent, I can\u2019t encourage people to purchase your product, but I do believe that your product meets the requirements under the law for a sheltered outdoor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-news","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cabriostructures.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cabriostructures.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cabriostructures.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cabriostructures.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cabriostructures.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cabriostructures.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cabriostructures.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cabriostructures.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cabriostructures.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}