County smoking ban.

I know that the county said they would not deal with this issue until the state had an opportunity to this next session. However I don't believe that will be the case. Look for the county to at least take a look at this issue soon.

There are a couple of reasons for this. One is because of the study released earlier in the week from the U.S. surgeon general. In the report it said that the second hand smoke was very harmful and there no longer could be an evidence against that.

I don't think anyone would say second hand smoke is good for you, however that is not what is at issue here. What I believe that issue should be is this.

government vs. Business and business should win. The government should not have the right to mandate what a business should be able to allow. If a business wants to allow smoking then they should be able to, if they don't want to have smoking then they should be allowed to do that.

If people were really concerned about smoking then they should talk to the owner and say hey do you think you could go smoke free, and if the owner had enough complaints they more then likely would.

The other reason I believe you will see as an issue soon is because this is an election year. There is only one Duluth commissioner up for election at this election and that is district one commissioner Fink. He believes for a smoking ban to hold any water every county around this area would also have to go smoke free and if they don't he would not support a smoking ban in the county. The left wing nut jobs could then use this as a political issue. This should not be a political issue.