Michigan Votes Forum

 Rep. Bledsoe makes good points. In view of the obstructionism of the bill, solution is enforcement of the already existing law MCL 750.27, MSA 28.216, http://medicolegal.tripod.com/milaw1909.htm as per the Michigan House Report on cigarette dangers as long ago as the year 1889, http://medicolegal.tripod.com/mihouse1889.htm

Toxic tobacco smoke (TTS) has long been known to cause lung cancer, since beginning of the 19th century, http://medicolegal.tripod.com/preventlungcancer.htm

 The Constitutional right to pure air admits of no exceptions. See references at http://medicolegal.tripod.com/pureaircases.htm  For bakcground on the toxic chemicals in Toxic Tobacco Smoke (TTS), see http://medicolegal.tripod.com/toxicchemicals.htm and http://medicolegal.tripod.com/coumarin.htm

 You are correct. Indeed, it is far beyond mere addiction for smokers. It is a matter of hard-core heavy duty BRAIN DAMAGE. Medical science has shown this for CENTURIES, http://medicolegal.tripod.com/preventbraindamage.htm since at least August 1603 .  The addiction aspect has been reported since at least the year 1527, http://medicolegal.tripod.com/tobaccoaddiction.htm   Smokers also are documented to suffer from disproportionate mental disorders, http://medicolegal.tripod.com/preventmentaldisorder.htm

Deleterious cigarettes are illegal in Michigan, http://medicolegal.tripod.com/milaw1909.htm  There is no right to use an illegal substance.

The term "smokers' rights" refers to their right to sue their pushers for tobacco-caused injuries, http://medicolegal.tripod.com/dangeroustobacco.htm  (and the right of their estates to sue their pushers, once they are dead).

Constitutionally, rights exist to (a) put out fires and (b) pure air, as per anti-nuisance and pro-safety legal principles, http://medicolegal.tripod.com/pureaircases.htm  Such rights of nonsmokers date back thousands of years and are continually upheld.

When smokers claim otherwise, remember their sad state, brain damage, etc., impairing reasoning and comprehension. See details on tobacco's adverse brain results and symptoms caused, at http://medicolegal.tripod.com/preventbraindamage.htm

 Actually, smokers do have a right, the right to sue their pusher for their tobacco-caused injury(ies), http://medicolegal.tripod.com/dangeroustobacco.htm (and their estates have that right, when the smoker is killed by the pusher).

Smoking is not a mere "habit," see the medical date on inveterate smokers hard core brain damage, http://medicolegal.tripod.com/preventbraindamage.htm

children used to be taught about smoker brain damage, see references at http://medicolegal.tripod.com/edison1914.htm

To prevent these injuries and deaths, Michigan passed a law in 1909 to ban deleterious cigarettes, law MCL 750.27, MSA 28.216, http://medicolegal.tripod.com/milaw1909.htm  This was done after the Michigan House of Representatives looked into the cigarette danger in 1889, http://medicolegal.tripod.com/mihouse1889.htm