Michigan Votes Forum

Introduced in the Senate on February 18, 2003

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Hey Ray,
Let's put the meaning of "private" back in "private property". Sponsor another bill to allow a privately owned restaurant to operate with smoking allowed everywhere and in total. Employees would sign a release prior to hiring and a sign would be posted at the door alerting any would-be patron that it is a "smoking" restaurant; they could exercise their freedom to eat eslewhere. You do support freedom of choice, don't you?

I think that the senate Bill 186 is off base. Why should anyone in Lansing be able to tell a another person who owns an establishment that people can not smoke in there. If the establishment is privatley owned and serves the public, the owner should be able to choose. When the food is poor but the air is clear then I can choose. Get The Goverment out of the restaurant. I do not smoke and never have!

Congrat's to state Sen. Ray Basham for standing up for our human race! If we keep killing ourselves off, how smart are we? We as a nation got all upset(for good reason)for the terrorists killing quite a few thousand of innocent American citizens but, in just a few years the smokers in Michigan alone(per the stats)will have killed the same amount of innocent Michigan American citizens!!! Does this make the smokers who affect innocent people(especially innocent people that die because of second hand smoke)terrorists? Obviously the intention is not there, but now that we know the deadly effects of second hand smoke, I would say that people that continue to smoke around non smokers are knowingly committing some form of wrongful act. Lets pass this bill and SAVE AMERICAN LIVES!!!