When They Came for the Indoor Smokers We Did Not Speak Out, Because We Kind of Like the No Indoor Smoking
See, the problem is, it's just that the politicians follow the polls. And so it's not so much that the politicians are assholes, it's that our fellow citizens are. We've long known this, of course, but we were reminded by an article in this morning's Post:
A new study on smoking commissioned by the state Health Department found a whopping 75.5 percent of adult New Yorkers favor a ban on smoking in front of public buildings and workplace entrances.
Even a majority of adult smokers — 54 percent — favor such a ban, according to the study of 1,949 adult New Yorkers done earlier this year by North Carolina-based RTI International.
Keep that in mind. Then, a year or two down the road, when you're no longer allowed to even stand outside of your local drinkery and enjoy a smoke, you'll have one more reason to hate everyone around you. They deserve it.
