I’ll start with a warning.
The surgeon general says smoking causes cancer.
And another warning: Ira Sharenow and the rest of the anti-smoking crowd don’t want you to read one more negative word about Madison’s no- smoking ordinance.
“Your paper,” Sharenow writes, “has turned into a tool for smoking interests.”
Our crime is talking to Madison tavern owners about how their business has plunged since the smoking ban started July 1. We’ve been taken to task by UW-Madison cancer folks, and by the mayor’s spokesman George Twigg, who called our coverage “one-sided.”