I walked into a bar last night. The bartender asked me if I smoked, I said “yes”. She presented me with an ashtray. When I gave her a puzzled look, she said “We’re Objectors!” After chatting with some other patrons last night, I’ve come up with a list of at least a dozen establishments across the Metro Detroit area that are now smoking speakeasies. I do not object to a statewide smoking ban, but a small bar where the owner smokes, the employees smoke, and the patrons smoke should be given an exemption over a casino where bus loads of senior citizens with oxygen tanks are frequenting. Banning something is one thing, actually enforcing it is another. Winter will probably return ashtrays to quite a few more bar counters around here.
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