New York Eyes "No Smoking" Outdoors, Too »
Posted By engineer 3 months, 3 weeks ago in NewsNew York City's workplace smoking ban six years ago drove cigarette and cigar puffers outdoors. But soon some of the outdoors may be off limits, too: The city's health commissioner, Dr. Thomas A. Farley, said Monday that he would seek to ban smoking at city parks and beaches.
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earthlingerer3 months, 2 weeks ago
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Now tell me about the more than 800,000 marijuana possession arrests last year.
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I guess the police aren't ignoring the law.
I, for one, will be glad to see the tobacco puffers hunted, especially when they didn't care about people (fellow smokers) smoking pot... what comes around, goes around.
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traveler20003 months, 2 weeks ago
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I'm a non smoker.
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I know very close people (friends and family) who almost died or did die.
Still, I believe people should have free choice, as long they don't directly bother me (e.g. don't blow smoke in my face, don't smoke inside my house, except on designated places, like e.g.balcony or toilet, etc ....)
I believe restaurants and bar owners should be free to decide what to do inside their own establishments, allowing to smoke or not, as I then have a choice to go there or not (and go to one where they don't).
We have become a society of intolerance and "politically correctness". It has now become "politically incorrect" to defend the smokers right.
It becomes so ridiculous that in some countries it's now forbidden to smoke e.g. on an open air train platform......
People forget that if we go that way, the "well doers" will forbid us to eat butter, drink wine, not go jogging at least one hour a day, watching TV rather than reading a book, not eating vegetables or fruit, etc .......
Soon they'll have cameras in our homes to make sure we don't do anything unhealthy...
Soon we want be allowed to touch each other any more, in fear of germs. (e.g. the big scare now for the Mexican flu)
Remember the movie "demolition man" with Sandra Bullock, Sylvester Stallone, and Wesley Snipe.... we are getting there.
People do die and will always. It's part of live.
And eventhough every death is sad, specially if to young and or after suffering, it's part of being human (and animal)
People die from smoking, a lot of smokers don't.
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vor3 months, 2 weeks ago
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As a liberal, non-smoker (who hates cigarette smoke in a closed environment) I agree totally. As long as you know the risks and are responsible as an adult and don't purposefully intrude on others you should be allowed to live a little.
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As always South Park nailed this issue write on the head in the episode "Smug Alert!" where everyone had to own the latest hybrid car. Those that did began inhaling their own farts (because their sh-t didn't stink!). There must be a limit to political correctness and a buffer zone between that and individual freedoms.
I have always eaten fairly healthy but the day they go after my fried chicken I will get vigilant.
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