NYC bans ecigs indoors. The mind boggles.

[BillyWJ]

City Council To Vote On Indoor E-Cigarettes Ban « CBS New York

Key quote:

City Council Speaker Christine Quinn said the ban will make it easier to enforce the city’s Smoke-Free Air Act, which banned smoking in bars, restaurants and other indoor public spaces.“Because many of the E-cigarettes are designed to look like cigarettes and be used just like them, they can lead to confusion or confrontation,” Quinn said.

They're not being banned for health reasons, but because someone might be upset.

So glad I moved out of that place!

 

[klynnn]

You have to wonder why this country is going down the tubes. We allow people to ban things because we don't like the looks of with no reason or rhyme. These people have way overstepped their boundaries and it will get worse.

 

[SissySpike]

So health concerns have no bearing on this ban. This is 100% I dont like something there for it should not be. What a shame how do people like this get a position of authority? But then again it is NYC the whole place is kind of screwy

Maybe they should pick up the garbage laying everywhere that would make a big improvement in the air quality! I guess what really bothers me is of all the things our legislators need to focus on why are they worrying about such trivial issues?

 

[navigator2011]

Just read the article, and all I can think is what a bunch idiots. Fortyseven boneheads dictating to how many people? The city must now be so clean and crime free that the only remaining issue is banning ecigs. I'm glad I don't live there because I would just carry on with my ecig as usual, screw the ban.

 

[navigator2011]

You have to wonder why this country is going down the tubes. We allow people to ban things because we don't like the looks of with no reason or rhyme. These people have way overstepped their boundaries and it will get worse.

Welcome to the Utopian States of America where everything is candy coated and the average citizen thinks like a 5-year old. The real problem is that nobody actually uses "reason" anymore, that's why nothing useful actually gets done anymore.

 

[BillyWJ]

The bigger worry is that now other cities will follow suit, as they now have a precedent, and this leeching into other areas, like smoking bans did. I never though apartment complexes would go smoke-free, but they did. I've read here some hotel chains have forbidden vaping, how long until landlords do?

This is going in a very bad direction. If this was a small city, it would be one thing, but "If it's good enough for NYC, it's good enough for us!" kind of thinking is everywhere.

Edit to add: This will be extended to public places. You know it will. Just like smoking.

 

[bussdriver]

I'd say that this bothers me, but I'm not surprised, and it is apparently a good thing? Communists, the whole lot, and the people keep voting them in, just like they liked it! You get what you ask for.

 

[tada1096]

here in north dakota we cant use them indoors or within 20 feet of a entrance

 

[navigator2011]

The bigger worry is that now other cities will follow suit, as they now have a precedent, and this leeching into other areas, like smoking bans did. I never though apartment complexes would go smoke-free, but they did. I've read here some hotel chains have forbidden vaping, how long until landlords do?

This is going in a very bad direction. If this was a small city, it would be one thing, but "If it's good enough for NYC, it's good enough for us!" kind of thinking is everywhere.

Edit to add: This will be extended to public places. You know it will. Just like smoking.

Yeah, that's why I said screw the ban, I'll vape anyway. How's a landlord supposed to know if I'm stealth vaping in an apartment? Are they going to bust down my door? Really? Fortunately, we're still allowed to keep and bear arms.

 

[BillyWJ]

Yeah, that's why I said screw the ban, I'll vape anyway. How's a landlord supposed to know if I'm stealth vaping in an apartment? Are they going to bust down my door? Really? Fortunately, we're still allowed to keep and bear arms.

Not in NYC...they banned handguns, too.

 

[Hypatia]

Grrr...My university is mulling the same type of ban (zero smoking/vaping campus--including outdoors), based on the same "it LOOKS just like a cigarette" BS. Really? My PV's and all of yours here look NOTHING like cigarettes. Do these people even know what they're banning? Have they actually seen an "e-cig"?

Mini-rant, but yeah, it's not about our health, or even about "offending" others. We know the real reason. As goes NYC, let us not allow the rest of the country to follow!

 

[Hypatia]

Yeah, that's why I said screw the ban, I'll vape anyway. How's a landlord supposed to know if I'm stealth vaping in an apartment? Are they going to bust down my door? Really? Fortunately, we're still allowed to keep and bear arms.

Yeah, unfortunately 2nd A does not exist in NYC. At least not for the little people...

 

[SissySpike]

here in north dakota we cant use them indoors or within 20 feet of a entrance

ND is easy just get 5 people to agree on something and you have a majority vote;-)

 

[BillyWJ]

Yeah, unfortunately 2nd A does not exist in NYC. At least not for the little people...

Again, I'm so glad I bailed on NY, and I was raised there.

 

[navigator2011]

Not in NYC...they banned handguns, too.

Probably why the average NYC citizen needs like 5 locks on his/her front door.

I wasn't envisioning a handgun. You every seen what a bow and deer tips can do?

 

[navigator2011]

Yeah, unfortunately 2nd A does not exist in NYC. At least not for the little people...

Well then they're violating a Supreme Court ruling.

 

[klynnn]

Maybe people need to start getting involved in the voting process. I have maybe you should. Don't look at what they say look at what they have done.

 

[BillyWJ]

Probably why the average NYC citizen needs like 5 locks on his/her front door.

I wasn't envisioning a handgun. You every seen what a bow and deer tips can do?

Thanks to a cousin who hunts, yes, I do! (And he hunts less than an hour from NYC...if those city dwellers only knew...)

 

[navigator2011]

Thanks to a cousin who hunts, yes, I do! (And he hunts less than an hour from NYC...if those city dwellers only knew...)

Yep, I keep mine nice & handy at home, and I don't hunt animals, either.

 

[klynnn]

I was born there but have no desire to go back. Especially after talking to the people who moved because even though their house was paid .off they couldn't afford the property taxes in retirement. I am pretty disgusted.