i can find a place in the park that is away from people, but is alright for people talk on the cell phone so loud in restarunt or keep there dogs next to them while i eat, if the mayor is so worried about smoking than why do we have cigar bar’s and not cig bar’s people really think they are going to stop smoking, half your children smoke and you don’t even know it keep giving them money for cigs someday go to 75st and first and watch all the kids i didn’t make pick up a cig you did by not paying attention before you mind my business clean up your own backyard

I would ask each and every smoker how they would feel if I took
away their pack of smokes for 12 hours,they would be insane craving
for a smoke ,impossible to do anything but seek out a ciggie in the army
when we interrogated a prisoner of war who smoked we knew we were in
the catbird seat taking their cigs away and they when they went nuts craving
the nicotine in a fit ,we lit up in front of them for the show,always from a new
pack of Pall Mall as that red package was really looking good ,we offered
them one smoke to talk a little and the whole packfull to tell us a lot .
It worked,one of the oldest tools around equal to smack for a junkie.
,it will be banned ,one day totaly banned.

Again, my right to pollute your air outweighs your right to breathe. Deal with it.

To Mike J. Macfact done
The smokers rights BS is so passe.and not
about big brother or civil rights .
You guys get disease that we all pay for ,you take up space
with your stroke and cancer and hardening of the arteries from
Tobacco at the hospital ,you force with your sad addiction all our
health costs to go up from HMO to Nursing homes .You all bring
on this disease to all of us ,one way or the other.
The total ban on smoking cigarettes down the road is coming but we
first must pray that our Governments,local and Federal make the cost
of smoking so high that these neurotic idiots that chose to still smoke
will be punished.,that’s the idea ,in 20 years I would bet that all use of
Tobacco is eliminated yeah for health reasons.
Our city has a TV commercial running that shows the continuous pain of
having to find 1 breath for smoker suffering Emphysema the pre cursor
of fatal lung cancer or heart attack. Morphine does not help one bit in
advanced lung cancer pain,
Visit those dying from smoking disease.,try the Vet’s hospital on First Avenue
and see what other’s do .

I can only imagine that it is the same people who approve of this idiotic ban that are ok with granny and the kids being groped at the airport. What ever happened to NY Chutzpah?

This has got to be one of the most blatantly irresponsible regulations and approaches to regulation enforcement that I have ever seen. For Bloomberg and the NYC DoH to call for what boils down to “Citizen Vigilante Enforcers” in a city known for having 8 million walking powder kegs should be seen as actual CRIMINAL irresponsibility. . . . . . .

When antismoking nut jobs feel they now have they now have authority from the city to assault smokers and violence and injuries ensue, will it be the NYC taxpayers who end up having to foot the lawsuit bills that come pounding down? Fat chance that Bloomberg will pay for them out of his own pocket. . . . . .

The health issues of outdoor smoking are nonexistent. See http://wispofsmoke.net/satire.txt to get an idea of how the studies are conducted that the wack jobs hold up to support bans like this. The littering issues on beaches (according to environmental officials in California who’ve studied the problem there) may actually NOT from the beach smokers, but from the city smoking ban in general as smokers are thrown out to the sidewalks, butts get littered and washed into the storm drains, and then wind up washing back in from the ocean. . . . . . .

There is a reason why societies usually avoid minor regulations of life and discourage citizens from even “gently” trying to enforce such things, and as I said above, I think it’s actually criminally irresponsible for the city to have gone down this path. . . . . . . .

Michael J. McFadden,
Author of “Dissecting Antismokers’ Brains”

For The Anti Smoking Cartel

smoking is good for you

http://www.forces.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=354&t=1283

I would have had the fire department standing by with a giant hose and sprayed water onto anyone who chose to lit up. If you idiots can pollute my air, the law should allow me to spray that dumb looking cancer stick out of your mouth. Go smoke in your own house.

I say repeal the smoking ban and add another $3 a pack tax. Allow restaurants and bars to allow smoking again if they pay a $500 a week “health tax.” Solve the budget problem and find out how important it is for people to continue to use their cancer sticks in one move. That’s what I would do.

this mayor wants everything his way ,he sucks no guns no cigarettes were law abiding citizens and hes turning us into criminals. whats next ,? i guess what ever bloomy wants like sheep going to slaughter.just like the nazi’s did to the jews . he sucks

Stopping smoking is for the children ,if yah know what i mean.
Kids copy their family.,If tobacco were put on the market today
it would never be a legal drug.It is time to see these smoking addicted
nutjobs removed they can live in another state where they can blow
smoke in each others face and cough to each other ,deep breath anyone?

Poor Ciggie puffers they are such sorry addicts they
have to defend their drug addiction even now when the majority
of people don’t smoke anymore or have ever started.
Let’s make a cigarette $3 each.
Nothing worse to see these fools doing this sucking down of smoke
and related poisons to their lungs
and arteries and calling it freedom ,who wrote this sad comedy?

Divide and conquer. That’s what our city’s quasi-leadership has done. To a formerly unified city: We all need to wake up and see who has blown smoke in our faces.

I see all the alcohol lovers responding here lol
what a joke – go drink and drive and kill someone innoccent thats ok
Eventually, when this mayor is gone and someone with a brain realizes that alcohol is as bad as smoking and taxes it accordingly, then we will see all the SCREAMERS

SMOKE! SMOKE! SMOKE! I’LL BE THERE CHEERING THEM ON HAHAHAH LOVE IT. If you don’t like that I smoke, don’t come near me when I’m smoking. This is my body and I have every right to do what I want with it. This law is the start to a slippery slope to the government telling what you can do next in the privacy of your own home.

they dont need to .. smokers will die early on their own anyways..remeber.. poison kills.. personally they should add more cyanide to cigs.. speeds up the process..why die a long lingering death leaving a nasty looking corpse.. go with the cyanide at least you’ll die pretty

Smokers are selfish arse holes with no regard for anybody else. Peeps are tired of inhaling 2nd hand smoke, especially those of us out there jogging or just strolling along and enjoying the sunshine and fresh air. Maybe the city should designate
specific areas in all parks for them to smoke. smokersodysseycom

I will make video and photo for those who smoke in
new york city parks and beaches, to post on Utube and send
to the city.

What’s next, a ‘skinny jeans’ in to protest anti-skinny jeans efforts?

http://bofadeez.blogspot.com/2011/05/new-jean-blues.html

LAME!

I don’t mind them smoking. It’s the stupid garbage (butts) that they drop all over the place. When nobody else is around, I make the idiot eat it.

My right to pollute your air outweighs your right to breathe. Deal with it.

OUTSIDE GIVE ME A BREAK. That is ridiculous..

Liberals in pursuit of ruining the American ideal.. Power Freaks. But “,it’s for the children”.

they need to band smoking altogether cause it makes me very sick personally and causes me internal problems.

Hopefully the nicotine police won’t open fire ,with live amo on the demonstrators !