Good intentions; bad environment.
The stats are in and of course its all relative. Lower economic areas have more smokers. Lol and you know there are tons of high economic smokers because you walk by the met life insurance company building on 23rd, wall street, Avenue of Americas and there are tons of high economic smokers there. LOL
There is so much smoking on these streets and avenue; do you really think smoke is not going to come into that building. LOL no rules are ever followed in New York City. You will have people breaking in, visitors, real estate agents and their smoking clients and above all you'll have staff smoking. Its not that great an area at all; very dense and an impossible subway stop that if you ever get on the train you'll wish you hadn't. Trust me I sure do know, been there and done that.
I don't get how anyone can say with a straight face that their public life in New York City has been smoke free. From the time you hit the pavement you face sidewalks filled with cigarette butts and dog poop. There are at least 6-12 smokers per street and avenue. Most often you are caught in the middle of 3-4 smokers. That's right this classless people smoke while they are walking on a crowded street, wherever and however (waving, swing, puffing to the side, all variants accepted). Just like dog poop they can smoke in the middle, to the right or to the left. Its one big free for all.
Who gave them the right to do this? I guess the same person who gave the guy who ate a whole salmon, cream cheese bagel on the bus this afternoon or the woman on the subway who had a whole MacDonald's spread their rights. Its the same right that smokers claim when you say they have no right to smoke in your apartment.
Ok let's say you hang out at the bars and that's your public life. Well for sure there is smoking in the bars, there just may not be smoking in the bars Mr. Bloomberg frequents.
I am appalled about the bar that is on the avenue where I live. They smoke 10-12 of them right in front of the bar's door and many of the drinkers come out so drunk they can't walk straight. Let's see in my bartending class they stressed that if a drinker has had one too many you are not to serve them, it is against the law, you can go to jail. Lol, anything goes and has gone since Mr. Bloomberg took our dear city away from us. I wonder after these four years will he give it up or once again say that noone can take care of the city but him.
LOL too much.
see the Haute Living Magazine write up of the no smoking building on Lexington Avenue in East Harlem
