Holy Smoke! Bloomberg Supports Statewide Smoking Ban; NY Legislature Votes Today

The New York Post ^ | March 26, 2002 | K Lovett

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Even as the city granted a grace period in enforcing its new smoking ban, Mayor Bloomberg yesterday came out in support of a tougher statewide prohibition on smoking in public places.

Bloomberg spokesman Ed Skyler told The Post yesterday the mayor supports the controversial bill expected to be acted on by both houses of the state Legislature today.

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Stealth activity while the eyes of the people are on Iraq: New York STATE is going to ban smoking in all "workplaces," which means bars. It's not getting much play, but they're voting on it today.

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Does the "puff list" still work? Here goes.

[Puppage]

the state bill would not allow smoking in small bars where the owners are the only employees.

So, that leaves what.....street cart vendors?

Let's not forget to ban the walking down of stairs with our shoes untied either

I seem to recall a certain Austrian Corporal that said..."don't worry, WE'LL protect you"

[Conspiracy Guy]

Reason # 27,362 for staying the heck out on NYC.

[Gabz]

PING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

On a side note - the Delaware Senate Small Business Committee is discussing the proposed changes to Delaware's ban starting at 1 this afternoon.

[Bella_Bru]

Unlike the city law, the state bill would not allow smoking in small bars where the owners are the only employees.

You know, one of things I always enjoy about going home to upstate NY is being able to smoke in all my old haunts.

[TLBSHOW]

Me thinks Mayor Bloomberg is a liberal rat!

[Sunshine Sister]

And a complete idiot!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Gabz]

Me thinks Mayor Bloomberg is a liberal rat!

me thinks you are correct!!!!!!!!

[Eastbound]

"Me thinks Mayor Bloomberg is a liberal rat!"

Arbitrary abrogations of liberty can only come from a tyrant and a fascist. Unconscionable from someone with a name like Bloomberg. A JINO, i suppose.

[Gabz]

I've found a few new favorite haunts here in Delaware. the smaller bars are being quiet about it - but hardly any of them are enforcing the ban.

Although I will continue assisting the folks fighting here in Delaware, in only a little over 3 weeks I'll be able to enjoy a cigarette with my beer or after my dinner in nearly every establishment in the area.

I'm counting the days til I will be free of living in this liberal pesthole that Delaware has become.

And I am ashamed of the city of my birth.

[Eastbound]

"And I am ashamed of the city of my birth."

Well, you can at least be proud that you weren't born in Boston.

[Gabz]

Well, you can at least be proud that you weren't born in Boston.

I'm not sure NYC is very much different any more. And my husband was born outside of Boston and his mother in Boston.

Amazing that we have wound up being such freedom loving conservatives with those histories. sheesh!!!

[Centurion2000]

They just DON'T get it .... how many times do they have to be told

Don't kill the golden goose.

[LibTeeth]

First they came for drugs, and because I didn't atek drugs...Then they came for cigarettes, and because I didn't smoke...Then they came for fatty foods... Then they came for the guns...

[maxwell]

Gad. Ol' boy just wants to sh!t on everybody's lawn, don't he.

This has long since passed into the realm of LalaLand. I could understand the beginning-- okay, so a bunch of pansies don't want anybody to light up within a 50-foot radius of their persons when they go out to eat so now nobody gets to smoke. I understand that because I know alot of folks that're that way.

But now nobody gets to smoke even in joints that would be presumably pansiless?

I know where this is going-- pret' soon, y'all won't even be allowed to smoke in yer own domicile...

[MarkL]

Hey! No taxation without representation! If I'm not allowed to smoke in a state, then I shouldn't have to pay cigarette taxes to that state either! Seems fair to me!

Mark

[Great Dane]

I am not at all surprised, would have been surprised if he hadn't supported it.

So now we have to avoid stopping in New York all together.

[EODGUY]

Gabz, as you know, I don't live in New York nor do I smoke anymore, but I am sick and tired of smokers being made to feel like lepers or second class citizens.

When will Bloomberg's term in office expire....anyone know?

I think he really wants to either be the social conscience of the world or God.

Has Bloomberg done anything substantive since he took office?

[EODGUY]

Max, I can't recall the location, but I read an article about a city/town that is trying to make smoking by residents in an apartment building illegal.

We may have to change the last line of the Star Spangled Banner.