Posted on 05/02/2017 1:46:20 PM PDT by drewh
Actress Dakota Johnson was just one celebrity caught on camera disregarding the Big Apple’s smoking ban during a star-studded event held Monday night in New York City.
A Snapchat photo of Ms. Johnson, taken by British singer Rita Ora and obtained by the Daily Mail newspaper, shows the “50 Shades” star lighting up a cigarette in what appears to be a smoke-filled bathroom. The photograph was taken during the annual Met Gala, a fundraiser for the city’s Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Other Met-attending celebrities caught smoking in the girls room, so to speak, were Bella Hadid, musician Courtney Love and her daughter Frances Bean Cobain, the Daily Mail said.
New York City’s strict indoor smoking ban, instituted by then-Mayor Michael Bloomberg, a longtime critic of the tobacco industry, was put into effect in March 2003. In 2011, a similarly strict outdoor smoking ban went into effect governing the city’s parks and pedestrian plazas, including its most iconic one, Times Square.
Per the city’s ban, violators face the prospect of a $100 fine, the Daily Mail noted, adding that young smokers like Ms. Hadid, who is only 20, may have violated city law if they purchased their smokes in the city in violation of an ordinance requiring buyers to be at least 21 years of age.
Of course, a C-note is a drop in a bucket for most everyone in attendance at the Met Monday night. According to The New York Times, a ticket to the coveted event set back attendees $30,000.
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To each her own. It doesn’t look terribly comfortable.
This is the yutes message? Smoking in the bathroom? OK, I think that is way better than cross dressers and pedophiles in the bathroom.
Carry on yutes! Give it to the man! Pffft! Unreal.
High school all over again......................
Smokin’ in the Boys room!................
What the heck happened to Courtney Loves face? Yikes WT should have put a warning label on that article.
I couldn’t tell the gender of the long haired blond in the washington compost picture.
More evidence, as if any were needed, that money and class are not synonymous.
Hey, wait. On second thought, I think its ok for them to smoke in an enclosed environment. In fact, I encourage it. Please, put some opium in their pipes. Hell, put some roach poison in it and smoke.
Doesn’t that law specifically say that it’s only for little people?
And they sit on the bathroom floor. Wonder if they will later complain about the possibility of stuff brushing against their dresses that might “get them dirty”. After being on THE BATHROOM FLOOR.
They look so juvenile. Like at a senior prom.
I’m surprised. I thought this group was against smoking cigarettes, at least publicly. I expected them to be brandishing their Spliffs (joints), or e-cigs.
Maybe everything old is now new again.
Dakota Johnson is always ‘smoking’.
Yes. I saw the first movie. Research, for my ‘book’.
And it appears the bathrooms in NYC are all unisex now too.
It doesn’t say anything about smoking in
transgender bathrooms as the photos plainly show.
Puff Daddy/Ditty/Diddy etc is getting fat!
I give up. Who’s in the wrong Rest Room?
Or is this a new way of defying the norms?
Big whoop.
Oh yes, let’s sit on a public restroom floor
in our thousand dollar gowns...such class.
How classy
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