NYPD Doesn't Care About You Smoking, Ban or No Ban

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Earlier this month we reported on New York's new smoking ban, which will prohibit cigarette smoking at public beaches and parks. City Council passed the ban 36-12, and it will take effect on June 2 of this year. So what will a police officer do if you light up at a beach or park? According to Mayor Bloomberg, nothing, really.

The Daily News reports that Bloomberg told a caller to his radio show that slapping smokers on the wrist will not be the NYPD's duty.

"The police will not be enforcing this. That's not going to be their job."

"This is going to be enforced by public pressure."

"On the beaches there's some Parks Department people" to make New Yorkers comply with the new law, Bloomberg said. "But mainly it's just everybody's going to turn to you and say, 'Hey, you shouldn't be smoking.' And you know, most people listen to that."

Not sure if we're hearing the mayor correctly on this one, but that sounds like a call for vigilante law. Get your costumes ready, crime fighters, it's time to take back the streets (and by "streets," we mean public parks and beaches; people are still allowed to smoke on actual streets -- for now).

Mayor Bloomberg says citizens, not busy NYPD will enforce smoking ban at public beaches, parks [NYDN]


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CarolAST
CarolAST

The anti-smokers commit flagrant scientific fraud by ignoring more than 50 studies which show that human papillomaviruses cause at least 1/4 of non-small cell lung cancers. Smokers and passive smokers are more likely to have been exposed to this virus for socioeconomic reasons. And the anti-smokers' studies are all based on lifestyle questionnaires, so they're cynically DESIGNED to blame tobacco for all those extra lung cancers that are really caused by HPV. And they commit the same type of fraud with every disease they blame on tobacco.

http://www.smokershistory.com/...http://www.smokershistory.com/...

And, all their so-called "independent" reports were ring-led by the same guy, Jonathan M. Samet, including the Surgeon General Reports, the EPA report, the IARC report, and the ASHRAE report, and he's now the chairman of the FDA Committee on Tobacco. He and his politically privileged clique exclude all the REAL scientists from their echo chamber. That's how they make their reports "unanimous!"

http://www.smokershistory.com/...

For the government to commit fraud to deprive us of our liberties is automatically a violation of our Constitutional rights to the equal protection of the laws, just as much as if it purposely threw innocent people in prison. And for the government to spread lies about phony smoking dangers is terrorism, no different from calling in phony bomb threats.

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