This is ridiculous. New York deserves to lose population and business and everything else over this sort of stupid-ass feel-good legislation. Banning smoking in cars, indeed; I don’t even think people using cell phones while driving ought to be banned.
(However I do think people using cell phones while driving ought to be run off the road and shot. But that doesn’t require legislation.)
And (of course!) it’s “for the children”!
“With concern for public health, I would be pleased [if smoking were banned], but that’s not what we’re doing,” said Assemblyman Alexander “Pete” Grannis, the Legislature’s leading anti-smoking advocate and a sponsor of the pending legislation.
Grannis, D-Manhattan, said bills like those outlawing smoking in cars with kids on board and banning the sale of more affordable small packs of cigarettes are designed to protect children.
And he insisted his bill to ban smoking at parks and beaches is meant to cut down on litter.
Asshat. Folks in New York need to stand up and be counted on this issue. Smoke ’em if ya got ’em.
Via the Corner.