Comments on: NYC Moves Ahead With Expanded Smoking Ban

By: AnotherPoshiterYid

AnotherPoshiterYid — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 00:34:02 +0000

After a few months it went down by more than a quarter?
Do you have any source for this, for some reason I find this VERY hard to believe.

By: por

por — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 20:02:12 +0000

In countries that enacted smoking bans in public places, within a few months ER admissions for heart attacks for NON-smokers went down by more than a quarter. This sounds like literally a life saver. Do everything you can to encourage young people not to start smoking, they get hooked before they’re mature enough to appreciate what they’re doing to their future lives.

By: Daniel Breslauer

Daniel Breslauer — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 17:56:39 +0000

Great news. I wish Israel and the Netherlands would do the same. Or how about simply banning smoking altogether, together with alcohol.

By: Torahumada

Torahumada — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 17:34:09 +0000

Ban smoking in any public place. You want to smoke, smoke in your office or your car.

By: Moose613

Moose613 — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 15:57:47 +0000

Declaring a ban is one thing, enforing it is another.