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Comment: And how exactly is Bill planning to do that? By setting up smoking-detectors [sic] or cameras in apartments and have Anti-Smoking Security check the tapes? Maybe Bill plans to rely on residents snitching on each other, like the 'fingermen' in the movie V for Vendetta or the children reporting their father in Orwell's 1984?
This comes as part of the de Blasio administration's efforts to reduce smoking citywide. It recently released a "sustainability blueprint" that outlined the initiative, which involves paying four health advocacy groups $9,000 each to get apartment complexes to ban smoking, reported the New York Post.
City health officials emphasized that the initiative is voluntary, but the same blueprint, titled "One New York: The Plan for a Strong and Just City," also said that de Blasio is moving towards legislation that would require apartment buildings to create a smoking policy and "disclose it to residents and prospective residents."
"Everyone benefits from smoke-free housing. Residents enjoy breathing cleaner, healthier air in their homes ... while owners see reductions in property damage and turnover costs," a Health Department spokesman said to the Post.
The Big Apple has already banned smoking in parks and all commercial establishments, a program initiated by former NYC mayor and billionaire Michael Bloomberg. De Blasio seems determined to pick up where his predecessor left off, but regulation concerning smoking in private homes is a new frontier.
De Blasio's efforts are a part of anti-smoking policies that are gaining ground across the country. California's Democrat-controlled Senate recently voted to raise the minimum smoking age to 21, and New Orleans passed smoking bans earlier this year that included prohibiting residents from smoking at drive-thrus.
Isn't this the same cat that wants to undermine the Second Amendment?