This is in response to the Oct. 11 article in the Daily about the city of Ames proposing to ban smoking in bars.

After reading this article, I felt like everyone is against people that smoke.

The city wants to ban smoking in restaurants and now in bars. Most people go to bars to drink and smoke.

I personally like to smoke while I’m drinking and certainly don’t want a law saying I can’t.

This idea of banning smoking is getting out of hand.

First, smoking is banned at the M-Shop and soon will be at restaurants and bars. If you give them a little, they want it all.

If smoking is banned in all buildings in Ames, where will the smokers go to smoke?

People will be smoking on the sidewalks, then what – special marked areas for smokers outdoors?

Maybe a ban will be passed that won’t allow one to smoke while driving.

Every one of us has the right to do what we want. If smoke in the bars bothers you, sorry. I’ll guess you’re having a drink at the bar, so think of the smoke as just another poison you’re putting into your body.

The poison will eventually be rejected just as anything else. You know what they say? This smoking ban isn’t needed for the bars, so leave the bars alone.

Ben Nurre

Senior

Forestry