LANSING, MI - Fuming over Michigan€™s workplace smoking ban, roughly 500 bars statewide are planning to fight back by banning state lawmakers from their premises, the Associated Press reports.

Called Protective Private Property Rights in Michigan, the organization said the ban would begin September 1 and would publicize what they maintain are the harmful effects of the smoking ban.

Michigan€™s Legislature approved a statewide smoking ban that took effect in May 2010, and many bar owners said they have lost business because of the ban. As a result, they are urging lawmakers to reconsider the issue.

"This subject needs to be opened up in Lansing again, it needs to be discussed again," said Steve Mace, executive director of the property rights group.

Ari Adler, a spokesperson for House Republican Speaker Jase Bolger, said the lawmaker ban would not likely spark legal change.