Smoking

Smoking is not allowed outside everywhere in Michigan.

Smoking cigarettes in vehicles with kids present, are you for it or against it?

Hours later I picked up my melted Pioneer speaker off the parking lot concrete, placed it in the backseat and drove home with the stench of smoke permeating throughout the car. For several months I carried around a smoky flavor.

A Northern Michigan casino has instituted a ban on smoking indoors indefinitely. Is it a safe bet others in the state will follow?

Smoking doesn’t just ruin your health. It can also burn a nasty hole through your wallet. The cost of smoking is much more than the price you pay for a pack.

While normally it takes a while for a new law to go into effect, a spokesperson for the Food and Drug Administration has said that because this change "simply increased the age limit in existing law... it was able to go into effect immediately".

Indiana is considering a hike in the state's cigarette tax - would it deter Michigan smokers from crossing the border for smokes?

Sure, you know the '84 Tigers World Series champions. But you've never heard of Jessie Rudle, Michigan's National Pipe Smoking champion.

My parents smoked like chimneys and my sisters and I turned out OK. I don't smoke but if I did I would choose NOT to expose my children to second hand smoke.