First I don’t smoke, I don’t like to be around people smoking. However they have the right to smoke if they want. So our city council just joined the fad of banning smoking in the city (that’s the way they put it). I’m sure they mean the restaurants and other public places. What really doesn’t make sense to me though is that they want to raise the tax on smoking to accomplish several things in the city. They want to remove taxes on groceries and put it on cigarettes. Frankly its non of the elected governments business if you smoke or not, nor is it in the right telling us where you can or can’t smoke. That goes for many things the elected government does. Lets think about this, ban smoking in the city, and yet up the tax on the smokers. Somehow I just don’t see this working out. What do you think about it?