In a move reminiscent of the Nazis, the mayor said he wants to extend the city’s smoking ban to include parks and beaches, making only apartments safe for smokers. The measure still requires the approval of the City Council, but just like he’s steamrolled them in the past, he’s likely to do it again, even during a lame duck session. |NYP|
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Mayor Bloomberg Is out of his Fu@#ing Mind!
By Bucky Turco |
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There I was about to call the Nazi comparison excessive on your part, and then… I WIKIPEDIA-ed it.
"The first modern, nationwide tobacco ban was imposed by the Nazi Party in every German university, post office, military hospital, and Nazi Party office, under the auspices of Karl Astel's Institute for Tobacco Hazards Research, created in 1941 under orders from Adolf Hitler. Major anti-tobacco campaigns were widely broadcast by the Nazis until the demise of the regime in 1945."
On the other hand, as a non-smoker, I shouldn't have to be subject to smokers' smoke, the same way I shouldn't be subject to BP's oil in the seagulls I eat every night. The point is, it does bother some people, ans smokers have no more right to blow smoke in my face than I have to tell them they can't. Its sort of arbitrary, but when one person wants to stay healthier it might be a better idea to side with them. Comparing people to Nazis is easy, and ONLY relevant when it has to do withthe central Nazi agenda, I think. I am a non-smoker, so Im biased.
Sorry Willy, but this is a terrible precedent to set. What's next soda? Hamburgers? I too am a non-smoker and hate cigarettes, but this ban is far more dangerous than any dissipated wafting secondhand smoke in wide open public place like a park. To think otherwise is foolish.
I agree. I'm also a non-smoker.
"They've banned smoking, and pretty soon there will be no drinking or talking"
-Eddie Izzard
Eating a hamburger or drinking a soda doesn't affect those around you, smoking does. Smoke in the privacy of your own home, car, etc., but I shouldn't have to inhale it.
Let's look at this in practical terms. I'm on Governor's Island taking in a view of the Statue of Liberty puffing a cigarette. You're on the other side of the island enjoying a view of Brooklyn and Lower Manhattan. How in the hell is that cigarette smoke affecting you? That's a rhetorical question btw, it doesn't!
This is more about the tyrrannical mayor of a giant metropolis thinking he has the right to tell people where they can and can't do things, not about your right to tell people not to smoke in your presence. As a smoker, I always try to be sensitive to all you pink-lungs when smoking in public. If you were to tell me that you're bothered by second hand smoke, I would gladly go somewhere else or refrain from lighting up. But if you feel you need King Bloomberg to ban things outright on your behalf, be my guest (see first comment).
Let's face it, most smokers are chronic polluters by default (flicking your butt) and most of those cigarette butts go into the ocean. Pushing them into the sand doesn't make them magically disappear. Second and third hand smoke is dangerous on both sidewalks and beaches. You really don't understand how other people smoking on the beach affects you? Get you head out of the sand.
Im a non smoker. But its not about keeping the smokers away from nonsmokers its about our rights as americans. If I dont like the smoke I wont stick around. Sure I hate smoke but I dont want government in our lives like that. I probly do things that smokers hate so f ing what. Government needs to step the fuck back