New York has already seen a number of ridiculous bans.
* In 2003, the city banned smoking in bars and restaurants. Eight years later, smoking was also banned in public parks, beaches, and plazas.
* In 2006, the New York City Board of Health adopted the nation's first major ban on the use of most artificial trans fats in restaurant cooking.
* In 2008, New York became the first major city to require fast-food restaurants to post calorie information in large type on their menu boards, including at McDonald's and Starbucks.
* In 2009, the city's Education Department issued new rules that effectively banned bake sales in city schools.
* In 2010, Bloomberg stepped up to coordinate the National Salt Reduction Initiative, a U.S.-wide effort to cut salt in restaurant and packaged foods by 25 percent.
* The billionaire mayor's charitable foundation has also been active in public-health issues, particularly an anti-tobacco effort. This year, Bloomberg Philanthropies announced a $220 million commitment over the next four years to fight tobacco use globally, including for the funding of legal challenges against the industry.
* The city's health department has led a series of campaigns against smoking and unhealthy eating, running graphic ads on the city's subway cars that have featured people deformed by illness.
-Chicago Tribune
âNew York City is not about wringing your hands; itâs about doing something,â he said. âI think thatâs what the public wants the mayor to do.â
-NY Times
This tyrant is either in denial, or he is lying to make himself sound less villainous. Either way, for the sake of New York, this tyrant must be pulled off his throne one way or another.
Tyrant Bloomberg is a self righteous, grade A, ******. He not only believes he knows what is best for the people, but he is FORCING everyone to act in a manner that must be approved by him, less said citizens want to see more bans.
By ordering a large soda and fast food with a number of outlawed trans-fats, I would find the people selling these things going to JAIL. These people would be fined! If these people refused to pay their fines, either the government will take their property or they will be kidnapped and thrown in prison with other criminals, many of which are murderers.
Mayor Bloomberg is the epiphany of violence. He hires cronies to THREATEN others into behaving, and he believes this is justified because it's "for their own good", despite these actions, these so called "crimes", being CONSENSUAL, NON-VIOLENT, AND VICTIMLESS.
I promise, if there is ever a day when I see Mayor Bloomberg in person, I would do my best to walk up to him, smoke my first cigarettes ever, just to blow smoke in his face. I will even put the cigarette out on his fine jacket that the tax payers payed for.
Needless to say, I REALLY ****ing hate Mayor Bloomberg. I don't live in New York, but it is he who is the cancer that spreads through the country. He is a tumor that should have been removed from society long ago.
Many people who have asthma understand that they can't constantly run around with medicine,
They can... It's an inhaler. There's medicine inside.
Everyone talks about how the government should provide the people with health care. Then, when people do something unhealthy, everyone talks about how the government provided healthcare costs tax payers money!
I think the government should provide healthcare, and I don't really care that we have to pay money for that. I grew up needing to go to the hospital a lot as a kid. And I'm grateful that I can get medication, and the healthcare service needed without sucking all of my parent's money.
Your point is invalid. Just because 85% of the cigarette smoke remains in the air, does not mean all of that smoke is going to be breathed in by others.
How could it not? You run into people very often in New York. If 1/10 of them are smoking then you're almost sure to run into a few smokers and breathe in their air or hold your breath as you walk by. The same happened to me today. But I do agree with you that I'd rather have society solve this problem without government intervention. I'd much rather have a general agreement that smoking is bad and that we shouldn't do it (or if you do then not around kids and stuff like that).
