City Health Commissioner Thomas Frieden had his two cents to add: "Second-hand smoke causes more cancer deaths than asbestos, benzene, arsenic, pesticides, hazardous wastes sites, industrial chemicals, contaminated sludge, and consumer products combined. Second-hand smoke kills approximately 1,000 New York City residents every year. That is why we must act now."
Remember when New Yorkers were thought of as tough and pretty sophisticated, even by people who didn't care much for them?
They voted for Hillary, Bloomberg - they're in the grip of a mass psychosis.
Well...no, can't say I do. I'm from South Carolina and we've always regarded New Yorkers as mouthy, amoral dimwits who seem to think crooked politicians hung the moon. ;-)
Another NYC official that needs a class in basic math.
The sentence should read: "Working one eight-hour shift 5 days a week, 50 weeks a year in a smoky bar exposes one to the same amount of carcinogens as smoking half a pack of cigarettes a day," the mayor said. And even that would probably be stretching it, but I won't quibble.
Remember when New Yorkers were thought of as tough and pretty sophisticated, even by people who didn't care much for them?
Believe me, I do - I grew up there. Apparently there must be something in the air or water that wasn't there when I was growing up.
This is NOT the New York I grew up in.
I remember a time when I was being told to leave homosexuals alone and not make fun of them, that was just the way they were, it was an illness.
Now I'm being called an unfit parent because I smoke by an openly gay man (Joe Cherner) who thinks he and his "life partner" are more fit as parents because they don't smoke.
Mr. Cherner, I'm sure, would be the first to bring me up on hate crime charges if I dared to say the things about his home life that he says about smokers.
Definitely NOT the New York I grew up in.