Five months after the smoking ban went into effect in Madison, bar owners blame declining business on the ban.

A spokesman for the Coalition to Save Madison Jobs, who is also a bar owner, says regular customers are no longer coming in and virtually no new customers are replacing them.

That in turn means the ban is actually taking money away from the workers it was designed to help.

In fact, payroll at his bar is down $15,000 because of the slow in business.