Michigan becomes 38th state to ban smoking statewide | The Michigan Daily

 

Michigan becomes 38th state to ban smoking statewide | The Michigan Daily

Michigan’s smoking ban will be instated on May 1, 2010. Smoking in restaurants and BARS of all places will be prohibited.  The only place you will be able to smoke is the casino’s.

I’m a smoker I happen to like to smoke. I started smoking when I was 13 trying to fit in and because I thought it made me look older. Now it’s just a habit. I did stop smoking when I was pregnant out of concern for my unborn child but as soon as I delivered it was back to a pack a day.

When I go to the bar I order a drink and light up as I watch the dance floor and chit chat with my girls. None of them smoke but they rarely if ever complain as long as I don’t smoke while we’re eating or in their cars.

I think this law infringes on the rights of smokers everywhere. We are being denied the right to our addiction without any type of rehabilitation.  I am being so serious. Alcoholic's drink…drink…drink then they get in cars and destroy families.  Being an alcoholic even causes people to become dredges on society when they drink to the extent of not being able to go to work therefore not being able to maintain and care for their own families. A lot of times drinking alcohol is just a cover up for  mental illness.

Smoking stinks it leave a smell on your clothes, in your hair and on your body. With a little soap and water that can be rectified. Smoking kills mainly the smoker, I’ve never heard of an actual account of second hand smoke killing someone . If that was the case I would have never reached the age of five (my dad smoked like a chimney).

I don’t want to go to the casino to be able to smoke and drink their over priced drinks. I want to go to the neighborhood bar and order a vodka and cranberry and smoke!