NYPD to ticket people smoking outside.

[amdhunter]

Talk about kicking butts in Times Square.
Smokers will not be able to light up when hanging out along pedestrian walkways across the five boroughs, including in car-free areas of Times Square, as part of a broad expansion of the city’s smoking ban to parks, beaches and boardwalks, officials announced today.
The proposed ban means no smoking if you're sitting on the traffic-free Broadway plaza at the Crossroads of the World and Herald Square, in all parts of Central Park or along the famous Coney Island boardwalk.


Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/...oking_in_phN7IkFjbnarPEY1y9aRDK#ixzz0zeeG91QG

Bwuahahahaha - I hope this passes for the lulz. I can't wait to see people getting $50 tickets for smoking in the open, where secondhand smoke is a non-issue.

This should bring a LOT more revenue to the city for the great NYPD to generate more money so they can fight even more crime and terrorism. We all know how good a job they do now.

To Protect and Serve Tickets indeed.

 

[Jumpem]

Good for NYC. I wish this were nation wide.

 

[zerocool84]

I don't smoke and hate smelling someone else's smoke but this is just retarded.

 

[vshah]

i'd be fine if they respected existing laws to stay away from entrances of buildings etc, but they don't, so fuck them.

 

[preCRT]

It's about time, most smokers are arrogant littering pigs.

 

[mizzou]

cool, maybe we can stop subsidizing their health care...


but how can we still tax them once they quit....


oh...EDIT* , how can i tell who will give me oral or not?

 

[waggy]

ok thats fucking silly.

 

[Cheesetogo]

So ummm... is there anywhere you can smoke in NYC now? Or does "pedestrian walkways" not include sidewalks?

 

[darkxshade]

lol can't smoke inside, can't smoke outside... so how is this any different than weed now?

 

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[Fingolfin269]

When NYC residents finally quit smoking how will they find a replacement tax revenue source?

 

[fire400]

When NYC residents finally quit smoking how will they find a replacement tax revenue source?

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[Wyndru]

When NYC residents finally quit smoking how will they find a replacement tax revenue source?

Alcohol is the next logical sin tax.

 

[The Boston Dangler]

you can't do this and you can't do that. nice freedom ya got there!

 

[moshquerade]

When NYC residents finally quit smoking how will they find a replacement tax revenue source?

Oh, New York never runs out of ways to find new ways to tax us.

 

[darkxshade]

When NYC residents finally quit smoking how will they find a replacement tax revenue source?

tax drinking... duh!

 

[Numenorean]

Good for NYC. I wish this were nation wide.

This.

 

[Illusio]

i'd be fine if they respected existing laws to stay away from entrances of buildings etc, but they don't, so fuck them.

This Too.

 

[Nik]

lol can't smoke inside, can't smoke outside... so how is this any different than weed now?

Weed is a danger, a plague upon our society, a jackel ripping at the soft underbelly of our fair civilization!

 

[manlymatt83]

I don't smoke and hate smelling someone else's smoke but this is just retarded.

This.

 

[LTC8K6]

lol can't smoke inside, can't smoke outside... so how is this any different than weed now?

That's what I keep asking. If you get MJ legalized, where are you going to smoke it? You can't even smoke in your house in places anymore.

 

[Bignate603]

I think this is a good idea. I'm sick of going through a wall of smoke when I walk out of buildings or having a smoker lighting up in the middle of a crowd without even asking if anyone minds.

If people want to smoke that's fine, but they don't have a right to do it around people that don't want to be breathing it.

 

[IronWing]

The problem with smoking is that it takes more than two weeks to kill the smoker.

 

[mmntech]

Is the city broke again?

That's what I keep asking. If you get MJ legalized, where are you going to smoke it? You can't even smoke in your house in places anymore.

As a friend of mine in college said, "in a few years, it's going to be the smokers huddled together in a dark basement."

 

[state 08]

I don't smoke and hate smelling someone else's smoke but this is just retarded.

I feel the same way. When they banned smoking from all bars and restaurants in my state, it was very bittersweet for me (more on the sweet side though).

I hate the fact that restaurant/bar owners can't decide if their customers can smoke or not, but I love not having to inhale the 2nd hand and come home with the strong stench of cigarettes on my clothes.