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1) This will be a law so widely ignored that it will simply build disrespect for law in general.
2) There has never yet been a single scientific study showing any degree of actually harm to people from the levels and duration of smoke exposure that would be encountered at a beach or park.
This is a law purely designed to do what Bloomberg pledged last year: to make smoking as difficult, unpleasant and expensive as possible to socially engineer smokers out of our lives. It's simply taking the theory of training rats with electric shocks and transferring it to controlling people. That's NOT what America is supposed to be about. New Yorkers are NOT rats.
Well said.
The Restaurant/bar ban is first, use the anti-smoking/control freak zealouts to reinforce it on others. Once people acclimate, you take it a step further. Next is ban public open spaces, then use the anti-smoking/other form of control freak zealout to reinforce it on others. Once people acclimate, you take it a setep further, then introduce the next level of social control.
The Restaurant/bar ban is first, use the anti-smoking/control freak zealouts to reinforce it on others. Once people acclimate, you take it a step further. Next is ban public open spaces, then use the anti-smoking/other form of control freak zealout to reinforce it on others. Once people acclimate, you take it a setep further, then introduce the next level of social control.
Very true Robb. It's called "Divide and Conquer" with the extra spice of being able to the the natives you've conquered and tell them that their suffering will end if they simply help to conquer everyone else. That's exactly what the Antismokers did with the restaurant associations around the country: grabbed the family restaurants and got them to pressure the "full service" restaurants, then got them to push for bar bans, and then they get the bars to push for private club and casino bans...
All in the name of supposedly creating a "level playing field" where everyone will be happy. Of course it doesn't work: the people who go out to play at bars and enjoy sitting around for after-dinner drinks at a restaurant end up spending more evenings at home and the "level playing field" simply becomes the "level playing pit."
I wonder how long it will take before this ban is officially expanded to include rooftops? It seems like that would be an obvious place to go and smoke outside, since rooftops aren't specifically mentioned. They'll certainly give a completely new perspective to the old Drifters song, 'Up on the Roof.'
I wonder how long it will take before this ban is officially expanded to include rooftops? It seems like that would be an obvious place to go and smoke outside, since rooftops aren't specifically mentioned. They'll certainly give a completely new perspective to the old Drifters song, 'Up on the Roof.'
well smoking on rooftops would be a fire hazzard, and that I do have a problem with, a very big problem.
putting a cig out on the roof, then going inside and a fire starts, no that is not the look.
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