New York City Bans Smoking in Public

[CountryboyRonPaul]

But it's ok for cops to use pepper spray.

 

[pcosmar]

Better get used to the smell of cordite.
It's coming.

 

[NYgs23]

Lol what? Smoking should be banned in all public places. There's nothing I hate more than trailing along someone smoking a cigarette, getting that nasty stench in my face and ashes in my eye. Freedom =/= ruining someone else's health.

Abolish "public places." Then we can kick you off of the privately-owned streets where smoking is allowed.

 

[NYgs23]

Not here in NC, they aren't. I'm asthmatic, so cigarette smoking is a major nuisance for me, but I don't mind it out in the open as long as people as respectful about it.

But the reality is that most smokers here are NOT respectful about it. In fact, most of them go out of their way to hold their cigarettes AWAY from their bodies when not holding them to their lips. If asked to smoke outside, MOST of them smoke directly next to the door, which completely defeats the purpose.

My honest opinion is that a little more respect from smokers would have made this whole "ban it in public" stuff a lot less intriguing for non-smokers.

It can be annoying how they all congregate around doorways. You know, since smoking was banned most everywhere else!

 

[Southron]

I hope they ban car and diesel truck exhaust and then they can just starve to death.

 

[JK/SEA]

Cigarette smoke is a global issue. MY GOD, that smoke in NYC will make its way to Seattle, or Tokyo and give cancer to innocent people. We must arrest people and execute them for spreading this insidious menace! and at the same time ignore diesel exhaust, sewer gas, woodstove smoke, jet plane exhaust, miltary attacks, body odor, people with a virus, solar flares, blah blah...look, i don't smoke, but any reasonable person would say i don't care if you smoke, just not in in enclosed room, unless a sign is posted that says its ok...geez...

 

[georgiaboy]

revenue stream from ticketing offenders. or will this be offset by sales tax revenue - does NYC tax cigs? prolly state does, not city.

 

[Wesker1982]

Abolish "public places."

Problem solved.

 

[jdmyprez_deo_vindice]

when I get stuck next to someone that bathed in perfume or cologne it gives me a headache which is certainly not healthy so I think they better ban that next. Soon we can remove all the toxins from our environment and thank our government for teaching us mundanes about the dangers we put ourselves in. Maybe at our celebration of government control rally we can have a friendly policeman line us all up like our days in elementary school where we can have timed drinks from the water fountain because there are certainly no dangerous chemicals in that which may cause health problems..... oh wait a minute...

 

[Philhelm]

Now that smoking is primarily a behavior associated with the dregs of society, they will look to ban it.

I assume you are referring to our current President? Seriously though, Gandalf smoked, and he wasn't a dreg of society.

 

[TruckinMike]

Carbon monoxide

Carbon monoxide (CO) is in tobacco smoke as a result of burning tobacco. It reduces the ability of your red blood cells to deliver oxygen to tissues, causing the greatest potential damage to the heart, brain and skeletal muscles -- tissues that have the most demand for oxygen. You're probably also familiar with the potentially fatal effects on people who breathe this colourless, odourless gas also found in automobile exhaust.

If this is true why didn't they ban driving cars/trucks/heavy equipment in NYC?

WARNING: If one were to compare the total public cigarette smoker emissions of CO to that of the total automobile/heavy equipment CO emissions in NYC one might die from ROFL'ing - I do not advise making this comparison - It could be hazardous to your health.

TMike

 

[Philhelm]

revenue stream from ticketing offenders. or will this be offset by sales tax revenue - does NYC tax cigs? prolly state does, not city.

Hmmm...another revenue scheme? Possibly. I had assumed that smoking would become a felony though.

 

[TruckinMike]

Hmmm...another revenue scheme? Possibly. I had assumed that smoking would become a felony though.

Gotta keep that Penitentiary industrial complex happy.

 

[Fredom101]

Wasn't smoking the first thing the Nazi's went after?

 

[specsaregood]

when I get stuck next to someone that bathed in perfume or cologne it gives me a headache which is certainly not healthy so I think they better ban that next.

Many perfumes and colognes bother me much more than cigarette smoke.

 

[Kregisen]

I think "warrior of freedom" forgot to lookup what freedom meant before making his username.

 

[QueenB4Liberty]

Yeah I'm not sure they should ban it, even though smoking cigarettes is disgusting. I'm allergic (well I have really bad allergies without the nasty ass smell of that shit) so I'd not go to clubs and other places that offer smoking. They lose business, but it's their choice.

 

[gls]

Remind me not to join the Coffee Party. Apparently it's a bunch of nanny-stater, central planners.

Actually that is exactly what it is. It is the "progressive" left wing's (failed) answer to the Tea Party.

 

[devil21]

Actually that is exactly what it is. It is the "progressive" left wing's (failed) answer to the Tea Party.

Im sure it's decaf too. And no sugar....its bad for you. And no milk since it comes from farm cows. Wait...dont migrant 3rd world workers harvest the coffee? Im sure they live in squalor. On second thought no coffee. It's a scary, scary world.

 

[Brian4Liberty]

It seems like people are more sensitive to the odor of cigarettes (and maybe any smoke). Could be evolutionary.