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NYC store owner fined $6,000 for one (1) ashtray
A business owner who left an ashtray sitting out in his shop has been fined $6,000 by New York Cityâs health inspector, who was enforcing the cityâs tough, new anti-smoking law. Brooklyn video-store owner Marty Arno also was charged with not having "No Smoking" signs and not posting his companyâs official nonsmoking policy, the New York Post reported. On the ticket, health inspectors M. Dundas and S. Holloway reported: "One (1) ashtray with cigarette butt, and ashes, was seen on the counter of the establishment." "Iâm a tiny video store â itâs just me and a girl who comes in part-time," Arno explained to the Post. "She knows smoking policy: We donât smoke in the store â itâs bad for the videos." The ashtray was there, he said, because a customer came in the store with a cigarette. Rather than make her go back outside, Arno let her snuff it out in the ashtray. Ashtrays are outlawed, according to Health Department spokesman Andrew Tucker, so that "there is not an invitation to smoke in the establishment." The law says, according to the Post, ashtrays "shall not be used or provided for use" and "No Smoking" signs must be "conspicuously posted so that they are clearly visible." Another victory in the WoS (War on Smoking)! Heil, Bloomberg! Posted by: Dar 2003-11-08 |
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