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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.
Comment: Putin is putting this advice into practice, presenting an alternative to subjugation to the Imperial West. A vision of a multi-polar world where every country, large or small is treated with fairness and respect. Just one example of many: