Hypocrital smoking ban

I was recently reading some articles in the McCook Gazette, just trying to keep up with the town I called home for four years, and I came across my dad's article (yes Mike Hendricks is my dad) on the smoking ban in Lincoln.

I knew this would cause some letters, and sure enough, George R. Anderson wrote in confirming what has happened in Lincoln.

People who don't go to bars deciding what people who do go to bars can and can not do. I do not favor the ban on smoking, but I am the minority who believe people should have the freedom to do what they want.

However, I don't have a problem with the ban in restaurants as many in Lincoln were already in the process of banning smoking when the ban came in.

But for someone to tell me that I can't smoke in a bar when I visit my brother, and yet they never go to a bar, seems a bit hypocritical to me.

Michael Hendricks

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