Smoking: a cigar, cigarette, pipe or other lighted smoking equipment

Enforcement & Fine Structure:

Department of Justice is authorized to enforce the smoke-free law. An individual in violation of the law will be fined $100 to $250.

Person in charge provisions: A person in charge can't provide matches or ashtrays, must post adequate signage, ask any person violating the law to stop smoking, ask any person violating the law to leave, refuse service to any person violating the law in the case of restaurants, bars, and private clubs, and notify law enforcement if the person refuses to comply. Any person in charge who violates the law will be fined $100. The first violation requires a warning* and the maximum daily fine is $100 regardless of the number of violations.

Smoking is prohibited in the following places:

All restaurants and taverns All retail establishments All bowling centers All skating rinks	Residence Halls of colleges and universities	Day Care Centers and outside of a day care center when children are present
Educational Facilities	Correctional Facilities (and on the grounds of juvenile correction facilities)	State institutions (mental health, developmentally disabled persons)
All State Capital buildings	Private clubs (any facility used by an organization that limits membership and is organized for recreational, social, political, etc purposes)	Common areas of multi-unit residential properties
Hotels, motels, bed & breakfasts, and tourist rooming houses	All municipal buildings	A reasonable distance from smoke-free places and entrances, windows, and ventilation systems of smoke-free places
Sports Arenas of all kinds including Lambeau Field, Miller Park, gymnasiums, & swimming pools(whether or not they fit the definition of an enclosed space)	Bus shelters, public transit	Health and medical centers of all kinds including hospitals, physician's offices, treatment centers
Inpatient health care facilities (county home, nursing homes, hospice, Wisconsin veteran's home)	Theaters	All other enclosed places other than list above that are places of employment or public places

Smoking is permitted in the following places:

Private residences	Certain residence rooms in assisted living facilities which are designated as smoking
Tobacco retailers* who generate more than 75% of its revenue from the sale of tobacco not including cigarettes	Tobacco bars* which generate 15% or more of its revenue from the sale of cigars or pipe tobacco (vending machines are not included)

* Smoking of cigarettes is prohibited in both tobacco retailers and tobacco bars

Information

What studies have shown about the positive economic impact of smokefree workplaces:

http://www.goingsmokefree.org/tools/economic.htmlDownloadable

Downloadable Celebratory Beverage Coasters :

http://www.goingsmokefree.org/tools/downloads/business_outreach/SampleCoasters_10152007.pdf