My body is private property. It's none of your business what I do with my body.
The bar down the street belongs to the owner. It's none of your business how he runs his business.
Get off your sanctimonious crap and leave us to hell alone!
This past year Wayne County, (home of Detroit) halfheartedly tried to get a ban imposed on bars and restaurants. Fortunately it didn't fly.
What appears to be the case in all these anti-tobacco movements, you have a small group of well to do individuals with nothing but time on their hands who decided to take it upon themselves to "cleanse" the atmosphere of the bars and restaurants "THEY" frequent without giving a single thought to the literally thousands of other establishment scattered throughout their counties.
Detroit, Dearborn, Hamtramck to name a couple, are old time industrial towns, inhabited by old time plant workers hanging out in old time neighborhood bars and restaurants. These same bars and restaurants are the kind of places that the nico-nazi do-gooders would never, ever think about entering let alone drive thru these neighborhoods without their doors locked. But yet is is these neighborhood bars that stand to suffer the most from the Do-Gooder bans. These bars are the heart and soul of these communities where the neighborhood plant workers gather after work to shoot the bull, drink shots, shoot pool and smoke cigarettes. After which they return to their homes, go to bed then back to the plant the following morning.
These people are the ones who build your cars, buy the cars they build and just want to be left alone. These people could care less about whether or not the guy sitting next to him in the bar is smoking but these people and their neighborhood bars are the ones who will ultimately suffer at the hands of the do-gooders.
Initially these bar owners will ignore the bans until the do-gooders start sending their nico-nazi scouts out to the neighborhoods to see who is complying and who is not. For those who are not, they will start to be issued fines for noncompliance. First the $200 fines then the $500 fines. After the fines start to mount up then the owners will have to start cutting down on the smokers. When that happens, their life long clientele will say screw it and stay home.
Will the do-gooders come to the rescue? Not hardly! Remember, these are the common folk and the type of people the do-gooders don't even give a passing glance to. Besides, the do-gooders have their own trendy places to sip their wines, drink their martinis and talk trash about who's banging who in their upscale neighborhoods. The shot and a beer joints are the last place they would ever consider visiting...........