APPLETON, Wis. —Two groups have backed out of plans to bring their conventions here because of a ban on smoking set to take effect July 1, according to the Fox Cities Convention & Visitors Bureau.

The bureau’s executive director, Lynn Peters, declined to name the groups, but The Post-Crescent of Appleton said one was a scotch-and-cigar-loving sportsmen’s association and the other a military group with lots of older smokers as members.

Source: Twin Cities, Pioneer Press. Link Expired

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