So the above commercial is a late attempt to "educate" smokers about how to live with these new rent seeking laws, while not bankrupting the hospitality industry and eliminating hundreds of thousands of jobs. As mentioned though, it's far too little too late. It does seem to be an admission from the smoking ban lobbyists of their culpability in decimating hospitality businesses and jobs. So if you lost a business or job due to revenue losses after smoking bans were enacted.....lawyer up......payback may be close at hand.
Happy New Year.....but beware of the secondhand smoke from fireworks
Fear not New Year's Eve revelers, neither Michael Bloomberg nor the Nicoderm profiteers at Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) will be calling for a ban on firework's secondhand smoke........there's no profit in it; demanding a ban on cigarette smoke while promoting pharmaceutical nicotine alternative products.......now that's another matter.
Michigan's economy has been in the death throes of anti-business liberals and Democrats for years, will smoking ban be the final nail in the coffin?
Michigan has been controlled by Democrat lawmakers for years. The liberal legacy has been higher taxes, increased spending and anti-business initiatives.....currently Michigan has the dubious distinction of have the highest unemployment rate in the country at 15.1%.
So what do you do if you're a liberal lawmaker in the Wolverine State?...Enact another anti-business initiative of course, a statewide smoking ban.
Secondhand smoke is NOT a workplace health hazard.....air quality testing proves it
Air quality test results by Johns Hopkins University, the American Cancer Society, a Minnesota Environmental Health Department, and various researchers whose testing and report was peer reviewed and published in the esteemed British Medical Journal......proves that secondhand smoke is 2.6 - 25,000 times SAFER than occupational (OSHA) workplace regulations:
If you can't beat 'em.....join 'em. RJR to buy smoking cessation company
Tobacco giant Reynolds American Inc. agreed to buy Sweden's Niconovum AB for about $44 million, gaining a foothold in the market for smoking-cessation products.
Fighting the smoking ban agenda by exposing the lies and the pharmaceutical nicotine interests that fund them....Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Johnson & Johnson Company (ALZA) -manufacturer of Nicoderm.
"Though we may not be able to protect your business property rights, we certainly support your Second Amendment Rights" 
