Well, this is interesting from the Detroit News.  Michigan's law banning smokers from lighting up in bars and restaurants has had no negative impact on businesses, according to a study released Monday by the state's Department of Community Health, which went into place in Spring 2010.

Mlive.com is reporting the owner of Belding’s last bar says he will be closing - why - because of the smoking ban the owner says.

The Driftway Inn  in downtown Belding for the last 39 years will close this weekend

“For some reason, the government is bound and determined to run bars out of business,” said the owner “They talk about trying to draw jobs into this state, but they are just putting more people in the unemployment line