ALBANY, N.Y. -- Under the new state's smoking ban, a New York Knick couldn't fire up an NBA championship cigar in the locker room, hired truckers won't be able to smoke away the miles and a performance of "Twelve Angry Men" might become a lot angrier.
But curbing such public displays of smoking could go a long way to the kind of societal change advocates of the smoking ban say is needed to get more smokers to stop and more nonsmokers not to start.
"Now, the image we have of a smoker is the person standing in the rain having a cigarette and that is hardly the glamorous image we had in the '40s and '50s," said Russell Sciandra, head of the Center for a Tobacco-Free New York. "That's going to have a tremendous impact on children's perception of smoking."
What else are these NAZIS going to teach our kids? Maybe have them make fun of fat kids to shame them into losing weight and make them think twice of getting fat themselves?
Squeezer ... and folks wonder how the holocaust could have happened. Here's some choice sound bytes I put together from antis in different debates with some of the folks here.
The problem with people remembering the past is that each time discrimination and persecution rears it's ugly head, it does so with a new face of justification. Today's generation simply can not make the connection that the persecution of smokers today is no different than that against others of race, color, or creed in the past. They remain naive that they are but mere stepping stones for those control freaks who will inevitably use their new found power against them as well.
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