Comments on: Michigan Workplace Smoking Ban Revision http://midmichigandining.com/2008/04/16/michigan-workplace-smoking-ban/ Restaurant and Food News and Reviews for Lansing, East Lansing, Okemos, Holt, and Beyond Sat, 26 May 2012 05:12:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: SW Michigan Dining http://midmichigandining.com/2008/04/16/michigan-workplace-smoking-ban/#comment-3415 Mon, 17 May 2010 03:44:07 +0000 http://midmichigandining.wordpress.com/?p=24#comment-3415 Dumbass.

]]> By: loulou http://midmichigandining.com/2008/04/16/michigan-workplace-smoking-ban/#comment-3414 Mon, 17 May 2010 03:40:39 +0000 http://midmichigandining.wordpress.com/?p=24#comment-3414 I cannot figure out how our government can step in and tell privately owned businesses that smoking will not be allowed in their businesses. At what point do we decided that our government has too much control. If you don’t want to smell smoke, or breath second hand smoke, or eat where smoking is allowed than go to a non smoking establishment.
We need to step in and take back the rights our governor and legislatures has decided to take away.

]]> By: Mid-Michigan Dining http://midmichigandining.com/2008/04/16/michigan-workplace-smoking-ban/#comment-1009 Thu, 04 Dec 2008 17:21:49 +0000 http://midmichigandining.wordpress.com/?p=24#comment-1009 No, I’m not petitioning to ban trans fats. I am petitioning to make cigarettes illegal though. There’s no good reason other than to line legislators pockets to keep something that is killing people.

If I only went to restaurants that banned smoking, I’d be eating at Applebees every night. No one wants that.

]]> By: Ajax http://midmichigandining.com/2008/04/16/michigan-workplace-smoking-ban/#comment-1008 Thu, 04 Dec 2008 16:43:21 +0000 http://midmichigandining.wordpress.com/?p=24#comment-1008 Yea, that’s just what we need more legislated control of our lives.

Are you already petitioning for a fried food or trans-fat ban? God knows heart disease kills way more than lung cancer. We need to save the kids!!!! FAT IS MURDER!!!!

If you don’t like smoky establishments then why do you frequent them? If those restaurants really wanted your business they would ban smoking on their own. Your own admission that any place that took the initiative to ban smoking might as well board up the windows is enough evidence for me. People obviously want to smoke and if the clientele demands it then the bar will capitulate or close.

]]> By: Harry F. Dunn http://midmichigandining.com/2008/04/16/michigan-workplace-smoking-ban/#comment-495 Fri, 22 Aug 2008 13:55:15 +0000 http://midmichigandining.wordpress.com/?p=24#comment-495 I went to Ohio where they have a complete smoking ban to watch the Tiger farm team play ball and talked to smokers who were outside smoking and they said that it is just now a way of life and they have adjusted to it. The one bar that I happened to pass by at about 6pm had an outside patio for smokers and there was nobody on the patio. Whole countries around the world have complete smoking bans and here we are, the most powerful country in the world bickering about this issue. We are truly a spoiled people. Why doesn’t washington just step in like other governments around the world and declare a complete smoking ban. Why?, because we listen to the special interest groups as small as they might be and let them control us because we don’t want to offend anyone. Our government gives in too easy to these special groups and politicians are accepting financial bribes from these groups for these groups to get their way. Wake up America!!!! This is a health issue whether you want to admit it or not.

]]> By: john http://midmichigandining.com/2008/04/16/michigan-workplace-smoking-ban/#comment-281 Mon, 07 Jul 2008 11:47:48 +0000 http://midmichigandining.wordpress.com/?p=24#comment-281 As someone in retail, I can assure you that in my location, we are forced to recite spiel to our customers when checking out no matter if the customer is in a hurry or not.

]]> By: Mid-Michigan Dining http://midmichigandining.com/2008/04/16/michigan-workplace-smoking-ban/#comment-78 Tue, 13 May 2008 14:30:02 +0000 http://midmichigandining.wordpress.com/?p=24#comment-78 That’s not true. There’s already proof in over 30 states that smoking bans neither close bars or kill nightlife. Like I’ve said on this blog many, many times, I came from a part of Illinois that banned smoking 6 months to a year before the state did and even with that unfair disadvantage, not ONE bar closed and the nightlife actually improved.

]]> By: Musician http://midmichigandining.com/2008/04/16/michigan-workplace-smoking-ban/#comment-74 Tue, 13 May 2008 03:53:00 +0000 http://midmichigandining.wordpress.com/?p=24#comment-74 The bans are a losing proposition.
Bars will close and night life will be gone.

If you want a milquetoast world, well, you will have it.

]]> By: Mid-Michigan Dining http://midmichigandining.com/2008/04/16/michigan-workplace-smoking-ban/#comment-60 Fri, 09 May 2008 18:59:02 +0000 http://midmichigandining.wordpress.com/?p=24#comment-60 Workplaces have been smoke-free since the late 70′s. This bill is a revision to that original bill because it gave exceptions bars and restaurants. No one should be smoking inside the building at any workplace….I don’t know if there is a requirement as to where they can smoke…in Illinois, it’s 15 feet from any entrance….I don’t believe Michigan has that requirement.

]]> By: Di http://midmichigandining.com/2008/04/16/michigan-workplace-smoking-ban/#comment-59 Fri, 09 May 2008 18:54:34 +0000 http://midmichigandining.wordpress.com/?p=24#comment-59 Does this apply to the workplace? I know some workplaces in Michigan where a lot of people smoke and they do not use the designated areas.

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