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2011-02-04 Home Front: Culture Wars

No more cigarette smoking in Times Square

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Posted by Fred 2011-02-04 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 I take exception at this for one simple reason which is the municipality first have to care about my health with regards to pollution and gas emissions that degrade my life and may even become the root cause of my death.
Smoking in the great outdoors is hardly measurable against those real tangible health hazards.

Let me also say that my neighbour smoked heavily since she was 6. She is now in her 80s and almost dead. Why is she almost dead? Because some modern thinking fuckwad doctor with a liberal agenda told her to quit smoking a year ago. She quit when in good health. Her body has had a toxic shock reaction without the nicotine. Go smoke if you want to.
My grandmother also ate lard throughout her life, loved it even, she died aged 91.

Posted by kojack 2011-02-04 06:05|| 2011-02-04 06:05|| Front Page Top

#2 She said the city expects the law will be primarily self-enforced...

Once again, we see the Progressive mindset in action. The concept of a self-enforcing law is a logical fallicy. There can only be self-enforced behavior. And behavior is motivated by an individuals natural inclinations. Conversely, laws are social mechanisms of deterance and control. Therefore, in order for the Progressive conclusion to be logical (as usual) there must be a redefinition of terms. And one must admit, "primarily self-enforced" seems more pallateble then to correctly describe it as an unfunded "selectivly enforced" symbolic law.

Posted by DepotGuy 2011-02-04 11:34|| 2011-02-04 11:34|| Front Page Top

#3 Bloomberg is the Meddler in Chief in NYC. He also sent people from NYC to do an uncover study in Arizona with regards to gun shows sales. This guy has dictator aspirations. Progressives want to regulate everyone's behavior but their own.

Posted by JohnQC 2011-02-04 12:01|| 2011-02-04 12:01|| Front Page Top

#4 sit on a beach not littered with cigarette butts,"

How about sitting on a beach not strewn with morbidly obese butts in speedos? Cigarettes are still a legal product as is the "supersize" option on a fast food menu". Banning farting and fast food wrappers littered about would also enhance a trip to the beach.

"With this bill, all New Yorkers can now breathe easier and breathe cleaner air."

Oh for sure. Traffic in manhattan. Smokestacks still spewing here and there. Airports, trains, ships - none of these seem to concern the non-smoking holier than thou crowd. Heads up SoHo. Eliminating smokers in the great outdoors is not going to improve the quality of the air you breathe in NYC in any measurable way.

Are we to believe that banning smokers from Times Square will instantly and significantly lower air pollution?

Should they have chosen to ban smoking in public areas on the basis of influencing children, ok. But quality of outdoor air? Rubbish.

Posted by swanimote 2011-02-04 12:18|| 2011-02-04 12:18|| Front Page Top

#5 It is easier to do something like smoking bans outdoors than to reign in government spending and balance the budget. Fiddling while Rome burns, so to speak.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2011-02-04 12:25|| 2011-02-04 12:25|| Front Page Top

#6 You want me to tell some muscle-bound bruiser of a junkie-pimp in Times Square that he can't smoke?

What're you, freakin' INSANE?

Posted by mojo 2011-02-04 15:11|| 2011-02-04 15:11|| Front Page Top

#7 "This summer, New Yorkers who go to our parks and beaches for some fresh air and fun will be able to breathe even cleaner air and sit on a beach not littered with cigarette butts," Mayor Michael "Nanny" Bloomberg said after the 36-12 vote.

Maybe the gigantic snow piles you've done such a great job of removing might even be melted by then...

Posted by tu3031 2011-02-04 20:07|| 2011-02-04 20:07|| Front Page Top

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