Jump to full article: Livingston County (MI) Daily Press and Argus, 2008-05-09
Author: Kristofer Karol * DAILY PRESS & ARGUS
Intro: Restaurateurs are popping off at legislators after the state Senate approved a bill Thursday that would ban smoking in bars, restaurants and workplaces.
The bill now heads back to the House, where it's all but expected to pass, and then it will be good-bye to smoking in many Michigan establishments.
"We have no rights," Hamburg Pub owner Mike Mills said. "I know it's not a healthy thing to be smoking, but who are they to tell us? It's like them telling us how much to sell our hamburgers or beer for.
"I'm all for whatever we can do to raise Cain with it."
Mills estimates 75 percent of his clientele smokes and that he doesn't know what he's going to do to keep his customers, especially in a down economy.
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