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Saturday and Sunday brunches will go smoke free. |
 | By Jeff Sherman   OnMilwaukee.com Staff Writer E-mail author | Author bio More articles by Jeff Sherman |
| Published April 9, 2009 at 1:42 p.m. |
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Milwaukee restaurants and bars edge closer to a smoke-free existence today as Diablos Rojos Restaurant Group announces its new "no-smoking inside" policy for Saturday and Sunday brunches.
"Smoking will be accommodated on our patios," according to co-owner Mike Eitel.
Eitel, who co-owns the restaurants with Eric Wagner, also noted that additional changes to the smoking policy are scheduled for this summer.
In other news, the patio furniture was delivered today to Cafe Hollander, 2608 N. Downer Ave. Watch for the tables and chairs to go up in the next several days.
Diablos Rojos Restaurant Group owns Trocadero, Fat Abbey Cafe, Café Hollander, Cafe Centraal, Nomad World Pub and a coming-soon Café Centraal location in Wauwatosa. The group also is pursuing several projects outside Milwaukee.
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Posted by erinlinn on April 18, 2009 at 3:56 p.m. (report)
I like having a beer and a smoke. Let the establishments that want to allow smoking pay a smoker fee for a permit. Get a smoking allowed sign so non smokers know and can choose if they want to go there or not.
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Posted by healthnut on April 14, 2009 at 10:50 a.m. (report)
yes_that_nick - are you really going to suggest that smoking and smoking related deaths outpace food related deaths? There has not been any namecalling by me, nor have I presented "pseudo-facts". I will admit that I misread the NMMAPS information, but so did YOU. Regardless, smoking related deaths number in the hundreds of thousands annually, with a related cost around $180 billion dollars. The effects of second-hand smoke are also well documented. I shouldn't have to provide stastistics, this topic has been discussed ad infinitum and there is plenty of evidence to support my claim that air quality (which includes smoking) is responsible for many more deaths annually than food related deaths. Smoking is also responsible for increases in heart disease, heart attacks and numerous other disease that you fail to link to smoking/air pollution in your argument. What I don't understand is why you have made it a personal mission to prove me wrong? Why do you care so much? I care because I would like restaurants to have clean air and less people to get sick and die from smoke. If you take whatever claims that I have made out of the equation, the fact remains that public smoking harms the people inhaling that smoke. Do you really want to inhale other people's smoke? I don't. Have a nice day, friend.
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Posted by yes_that_nick on April 14, 2009 at 10:03 a.m. (report)
healthnut, the 7200 deaths you attribute to air quality in Baltimore is actually 7300 deaths per year in Baltimore from all causes (Baltimore County puts that number at roughly 5800 according to their published death rate.) The leading cause of death in Baltimore County, according to Baltimore County, is heart disease at 1900 per year. NMMAPS seems to set Baltimore air quality deaths at 20 per year, from acute exposure only. I don't have time to read the report in it's entirety, but as it seems to measure mortality rates as they apply to acute PM10 exposure from all sources, it might be a stretch to apply it here. Debating any topic on the internet is traditionally pointless, and unsubstantiated claims just make it worse. Please consider this before you post a comment. Both sides of this argument have valid arguments, so let's hear them - without the name-calling and pseudo-facts that usually crop up.
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Posted by ChateauDweller on April 13, 2009 at 5:31 p.m. (report)
Is there a CDC study about second-hand smoke deaths? How about a study describing the harmful effects of inhaling others smug-emissions?
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Posted by healthnut on April 13, 2009 at 11:39 a.m. (report)
CDC puts foodbourne deaths at around 5,200 annually. The National Morbidity and Mortality Air Pollution Study (NMMAPS) shows annual deaths in Baltimore alone to be 7200. I couldn't find national rates in the quick searches I did, but I'm sure that the savvy internet surfer could find it quickly enough, so I won't post a link. Obviously, if statistics on one U.S. city are that high (they outpace food deaths nationwide), one could assume that annual air quality related deaths are probably about 100 times higher than food related deaths (again just an estimate). I hope that helps our discussion.
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