Comments on: Smoking is Now Illegal in New York City Parks and Beaches http://inhabitat.com/nyc/smoking-is-now-illegal-in-new-york-city-parks-and-beaches/ Green Design and Innovation in New York City Mon, 13 May 2013 06:36:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: scrapmetal58 http://inhabitat.com/nyc/smoking-is-now-illegal-in-new-york-city-parks-and-beaches/comment-page-1/#comment-1022 scrapmetal58 Tue, 24 May 2011 18:53:41 +0000 http://inhabitat.com/nyc/?p=10477#comment-1022 Lazyreader, what about my "freedom' to not have to be exposed to second-hand smoke, let alone all the littering smokers do with their butts? I don't know about the USA, but here in Canada our Charter of Rights and Freedoms guarantees certain rights and freedoms as long as they do not cause harm to others. Law can be made to limit smoking this way. Lazyreader, what about my “freedom’ to not have to be exposed to second-hand smoke, let alone all the littering smokers do with their butts?
I don’t know about the USA, but here in Canada our Charter of Rights and Freedoms guarantees certain rights and freedoms as long as they do not cause harm to others. Law can be made to limit smoking this way.

]]> By: lazyreader http://inhabitat.com/nyc/smoking-is-now-illegal-in-new-york-city-parks-and-beaches/comment-page-1/#comment-1019 lazyreader Tue, 24 May 2011 12:13:56 +0000 http://inhabitat.com/nyc/?p=10477#comment-1019 As much as I despise smoking, I despise government making restrictions on peoples freedoms as well. With the modernization of cigarette production compounded with the increased life expectancies during the 1920s, adverse health effects began to become more prevalent. In other words, wealthier people started caring more about their health when they realized they were not gonna die of starvation or disease. During the Great depression Adolf Hitler condemned his earlier smoking habit as a waste of money and later with stronger assertions. This movement was further strengthened with Nazi reproductive policy as women who smoked were viewed as unsuitable to be wives and mothers in a German family. The movement in Nazi Germany did reach across enemy lines during the Second World War, as anti-smoking groups quickly lost popular support. By the end of the Second World War, American cigarette manufactures quickly reentered the German black market. Illegal smuggling of tobacco became prevalent and leaders of the Nazi anti-smoking campaign were assassinated. Today Russia leads as the top consumer of tobacco followed by Indonesia, Laos, Ukraine, Belarus, Greece, Jordan, and China. Everyone knows that smoking is bad for you, including people who continue to do it. Banning certain people from public places is unconstitutional. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdWSnB2gSSI As much as I despise smoking, I despise government making restrictions on peoples freedoms as well. With the modernization of cigarette production compounded with the increased life expectancies during the 1920s, adverse health effects began to become more prevalent. In other words, wealthier people started caring more about their health when they realized they were not gonna die of starvation or disease.

During the Great depression Adolf Hitler condemned his earlier smoking habit as a waste of money and later with stronger assertions. This movement was further strengthened with Nazi reproductive policy as women who smoked were viewed as unsuitable to be wives and mothers in a German family. The movement in Nazi Germany did reach across enemy lines during the Second World War, as anti-smoking groups quickly lost popular support. By the end of the Second World War, American cigarette manufactures quickly reentered the German black market. Illegal smuggling of tobacco became prevalent and leaders of the Nazi anti-smoking campaign were assassinated.

Today Russia leads as the top consumer of tobacco followed by Indonesia, Laos, Ukraine, Belarus, Greece, Jordan, and China. Everyone knows that smoking is bad for you, including people who continue to do it. Banning certain people from public places is unconstitutional.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdWSnB2gSSI

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