It's hard work and almost always thankless... But if we don't do it, who will?

• Before you start, read these great tips regarding advocacy.

• Write letters!
• Write letters to your local government officials and tell them not to support smoking bans. Here is an example of a form letter for the City of Kenosha and another for LaCrosse County.

• Enlist in Operation Mollycoddle!
• OpMol is our new campaign taking aim at Smoke Free Wisconsin and the State officials who don't seem to believe that we're a bunch of grown adults who can take care of ourselves. We here at BtBWI won't stand for that, and neither should you! So ENLIST NOW.

• Circulate the Petition!
• Want to help stop the Wisconsin smoking ban in your own city, town, or bar? Click here for a downloadable PDF that you may print out and use. When it’s full or when you’ve collected all of the signatures you can, please mail the petition to:

Ban the Ban Wisconsin
PO Box 253
Clayton, WI 54004

Or, you can scan the document and email it to:
pheisty@pheistyblog.com
(We don’t have a fax machine quite yet, but we will soon.)

• Contact Your Legislators!
• One of the most important things you can do is to contact your own legislators and tell them what you think. We contact legislators, but a letter from their own constituents is a much more powerful tool because you hold the power to vote for them or vote them out.
• You can find your area legislators here
• Here is an example of a letter that I sent to legislators that you can use for yourself if you want, or just write your own. There’s no need to get as detailed as this though, even a short note telling them your feelings helps to get the point across.
• Try a little satire and humor to get your point across. Here’s a letter that I wrote to send to lawmakers regarding the health hazards of carcinogenic ultraviolet radiation (sunlight) that is hard to argue against if you support smoking bans.
• Ask us! We’ll write a letter for you to send if you’d like. Just drop us a note with your location and we’ll write something up for you to send to your specific legislator!

• Promote Ban the Ban Wisconsin’s Web Site!
• Do you have a blog, or does your bar have a web site? Feel free to use any Ban the Ban Wisconsin graphics to your heart’s desire, and simply link to our homepage, our blog or our petition.
• We will have some direct links to our high-quality, larger logos and graphics will be available when we have the chance to put them up.
• Link up! Use one of the uber cool buttons to links to banthebanwisconsin.com

• Hang Posters,Flyers or sport a Ban the Ban shirt!
• We have made up some great “Propaganda Posters” for you to utilize. (We’re working on uploading the PDF docs, for easy printing and saving. Hang them in bars and taverns (ask permission first), Community Billboards, or just about anywhere you can without infringing on private property rights of others, and without breaking any other applicable laws.
• Grab a flyer and leave a few at your favorite watering hole or on your community bulletin boards. Anywhere that others will see it and get the message.
• Many of them work in black and white, so if cost is an issue, you may simply copy them off on a copy machine. We suggest using a bright color of copy paper, so that it stands out.
• Check out our Promotional Items page and grab a shirt and tell the world what you think about smoking bans!
• Or, if you’d like, make up your own! We love to see other people’s creativity in action. All we ask is that if you choose to use the “Ban the Ban Wisconsin” name or web site on your poster, you email it to us first so that we can put our stamp of approval on it. (We’re trying to keep a semi-good name for ourselves, fully realizing that the fact we are fighting for taverns and smokers makes us sinners in many people’s eyes, already. We want to keep it clean, folks.)
• Who knows? We may even have a “Ban the Ban” poster contest. Stop back for updates.

• Donate to the Cause!
• So far we have been doing this as a labor of love and funding the campaign out of our own pockets. Any support from the community will help us help you, so please consider even a small amount to put towards printing and advertising. Your donation is safe and secure through PayPal (no account is needed) and since we’re a Wisconsin nonprofit you know your donation is going to a good cause. We take no salary or personal compensation from this and 100% goes into the campaign.

• Study up!
• Check out this fact sheet put together by the Ohio Smoker's Rights Group. It's a good basic primer on the issues
• Read up on the American Cancer Society and why we're skeptical of them
• Start looking at what this is really all about