Wisconsin Code § 97.627

Causing fires by tobacco smoking
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(1) Any
person who, by smoking, or attempting to light or to smoke cigarettes, cigars, pipes or tobacco, in any manner in which lighters or
matches are employed, shall, in a careless, reckless or negligent

manner, set fire to any bedding, furniture, curtains, drapes, house
or any household fittings, or any part of any building specified in
sub. (2), so as to endanger life or property in any way or to any extent, shall be fined not less than $50 nor more than $250, together
with costs, or imprisoned not less than 10 days nor more than 6
months or both.
(2) In each sleeping room of all hotels, rooming houses, lodging houses and other places of public abode, a plainly printed notice shall be kept posted in a conspicuous place advising tenants
of the provisions of this section.

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