The latest escalation in New York City's War on Smoking, in which smokers can no longer enjoy a cigarette while walking through the park or the tourist-packed pedestrian plaza of Times Square, is going exactly as planned one month after taking effect: completely unenforced.
The FDA's main plan to getting Americans to give up the vile weed "tobacco" is to put increasingly nasty photos in increasingly prominent places on cigarette packs, until it simply becomes too socially awkward for anyone to carry around cigarettes. This will not work. But it's entertaining to watch the process!…
Enjoy your unfettered right to spread emphysema to your fellow bar patrons while you can, America: a new CDC report *estimates* that by 2020, every state in our hazy union will have a New York-style law banning indoor smoking. Fuckers.
Hey smokers: think you got it bad in America just because you can't get a job, due to smoking? Your ingratitude is just one of your many flaws. Here's a new reason to be happy you don't live in Honduras:
The ongoing War on Smoking, having already eroded your inalienable right to smoke in various public locations of your choice, is taking things to a whole nother level: they are going to quite literally blacklist smokers, refusing to hire them and even mandating piss tests for tobacco, to ensure that smokers remain…
You think anti-smoking regulations are tough in the US? Well, at least you don't have to worry about your home being raided by police with a tobacco sniffer dog, or face five years in prison for having too many cigarettes.
It seems like wherever you go these days, some jerk is trying to talk you out of smoking and drinking all day. The latest know-it-all jerk moves: Regular citizens acting like the smoking police. And warning labels—on booze!
Since the gubmint came and taxed the hell out of everything from clove cigarettes to E-cigarettes, the last reasonable refuge for a gentleman who enjoys soothing nicotine is to roll his own cigs out of barely-taxed "pipe tobacco." Wait—revenuers!
The war on smoking is without end: they've already come for your clove cigarettes, and your flavored cigarettes, and your light cigarettes. Now, they're coming for your "e-cigarettes." Jesus, pretty soon we'll all be forced to smoke...cigarettes. [WSJ]
The NYC war on smoking's latest front: construction sites. What about workers' right to danger?
Uhhh, clearly California legislators have not been studying our list of Places People Can Always Smoke, No Takebacks. They're now trying to outlaw smoking at state parks and at beaches. Is there no smokin' nature left?
Several large NYC landlords are moving to ban smoking inside their own apartment complexes, and on the sidewalks outside them, as well. Clearly, this violates our just-made-up list of Places People Can Always Smoke, No Takebacks.
