I am sooo happy about this. I take my kids to the park and there is always some idiot parent with a cigarette and smoking… Thanks Bloomberg! I don’t like you much but I like this new law!

Audrey Silk for NYC Mayor! Vote Libertarian Party to restore our rights! Audrey Silk believes in smoker’s rights! I do not smoke myself but I think it’s everyone’s right to do in public. If you don’t like being in the company of a smoker, then just walk somewhere else. There is lots of open public space outside so that smoke doesn’t get trapped. We should be allowed to smoke wherever we want in public including smoking sections of restaurants that do not connect to non-smoking areas. Mayor Bloomberg: we’re sick of your socialism. Do us a favor and move back to Khazaria where you belong with your Commie red friends!

You figure our public officials would be doing more to rid our public services of illegals. Not making it tougher on doing something legal as smoking. Car emitting gases are by far much worst than a smokers smoke. How about making idle trucks and buses turn there engines off, when making deliveries. Simply because you don’t see the smoke don’t mean the gases aren’t there.

this is so stupid -the mayor is doing this so he could flaunt his weight around and stick it too the cigarette company ,because he himself smoked for many years . what he’s doing isnt legal! he himself has raised the taxes 4 times in new york .

he also raised the cost of living in new york !

he closed down so many things in new york for senior citizens -i really hate this man.

he cut so many programs and shut down fire houses -its like he is some sought of demon -looking to ruin new york and the middle class. he killed the poor people. he almost made them all to move out. go figure.

Hoooray! There’s nothing worse than to be jogging or running, and to run right into
a wall of tobacco smoke…damn, it feels like your freaking lungs are going to blow right up. smokersodysseycom

THE LAST TIME I LOOK UP DICTATOR .IT MEANTED A RULER WITH TOTAL POWER OVER A COUNTRY,TYPICALLY ONE WHO HAS OBTAINED POWER BY FORCE..AND THAT’S BOOMBERG…IT’S FUNNY HOW THIS COUNTRY FALT MANY COUNTRY’S FOR HAVING DICTATOR’S..BUNCH OF HIPPOCRIB’S…HERE YOU ARE DICTATING US…OPEN YOUR EYE’S AMERICAN…HE IS A CONTROL FREAK..

I’m glad. I’m tired of having to move from a park bench because someone’s smoke gets in my face.

smoking stunts your growth Just ask Mayor Bloomberg

We are weak people who cannot regulate by self moderation. Bloomberg has completely lost it and the world laughs at our profound ignorance.

Welcome to the People,s Republic of New York City. All together: kow tow to the Great Leader. This is the result of the people electing liberals as opposed to libertarians on election day.

So glad I moved out of the dump.

Bottom line is City needs money…..they will find every stupid way to write tickets and collect fines……thats how Cops justify their jobs…..becaise they are affraid of fighting with real criminals…..it will one professional against the other….so they look for easy target…..and what could be more easier than writing tickets all day.

Wheter anybody realizes or not NYC is becoming the city of no pedestrian malls bike lanes no parking where food restaurants have to have calories chart no f d no cops anybody that wants to live or visit NYC better go have their head examine no smoke in parks or beaches o m g

this is so stupid I dont smoke but it doesnt bother me when other people does that is their right and I am tried of the goverment telling us what we can can not do this is not a free country anymore I this the goverment needs to keep their nose out of our business we are adults

The city and/or the state has no constitutional legal authority to ban or not to ban smoking or regulate our lives in any way. I am not a smoker and I don’t like second hand smoke either, but it shouldn’t be on mayor Bloomberg to impose that, because he has no authority doing it

Another continuation in Kaiser Adolf Bloomberg’s strive to dictate and control the most minute details of people’s lives. Enforcement chances are zero to nill.

People, people…wake up ….has anyone noticed that this country is NOT the land of the free anymore??? All of our rights as Americans are slowly being taken from us. Look around…if you don’t like the music, turn the station. If you don’t like what i am wearing- don’t look. If you don’t like what i said…oh well- that is your right. However, if we Americans continue to follow like SHEEP and do as the task master says and NOT fight back and voice up (or man up) and start making a stand we as Americans’ will have no right at all. Give me liberty or give me death! Does that phrase have any meaning to any of you??? Really??? Our founders of this country are rolling in their graves. If I choose to light up in a park- I will- Fine me… arrest me… Cause when I get out I will do it again! Defiance to the King! Wake up people! wake up!

Next,make cigarettes illegal.Think about how much money we’ll save on medical costs.The smoke from cigarettes rival the pollution from cars and trucks.One major difference between the two,we don’t need to smoke,we need the trucks and cars for our way of life to continue.Cigarettes kill,they should be outlawed.And to those who criticize,I used to be a smoker,life is better without them.

There is no sientific proof that second hand smoke is dangerous or causes any health issue to the non-smoker. Question, what taxes are they going to increase or invent to make up for the loss of cigarette taxes?. Now you all can pat instead of just the smokers.

why dont you look outside your window.. the boilers from surrounding building are doing more harm than us smoking.
ps: you should move to the country.. next to the nuclear plan. it is safer.

Nowadays you walk down the sidewalk and all you breath is second hand smoke from the employees who sneak out of their jobs to smoke!
NYC needs to ban smoking on all sidewalks as well.

YES! it’s about time. i’m tired of breathing other people’s carbon monoxide that i choose not to produced. nasty stuff, nasty. i’ve avoided some of nyc parks due to the smoke that just lingers there (tompkins sq, to be precise). now let’s modify ALL vehicles in manhattan to solar/electric. that would be another great step to air purification.

I think hes an idiot as usual …This is another annoying law to stop people from smoking ..we have the rights to smoke .. tax the drinkers and go after the people who drink and drive .. and KILL people on the road . As A new yorker today is the day I will not visit a park or a beach or public affair .. We have to pay for everything but don’t have the right to smoke .. cant wait til the housing market is better I am so out of this disgusting city that I hate so much . I HATE NY SHOULD BE THE SONG !

Some of what this mayor has done is really cool with me, closed down some of the avenues on weekends let tourists walk and see the city, vendors can sell some of the best foods of the trucks, I like that..but the law kind of caters to new yorkers and non new yorkers that have jumped on the band wagon of ” ohhhh I cant breath” discusting habit, we pay taxes too, etc.. cigarettes are $12.00 a pack in my neighborhood and like cheap perfume, if it aint illegal you can use it over the age limit..

Thank you for this law. I am going to stop smoking after 25 years. Why? becuase if I light up and one person makes any kind of remark to me whatsoever, I’ll be in prison for murder. So thanks again. Less revenue for the state and I’ll see my daughter married after all.