Why we chood queet esmoking
There is a movement afoot in New York City by Mayor Bloomberg to get people to quit smoking, he first raised the tax on a pack of cigarettes from $2 to about $4 making a pack in NYC about $7, probably the highest price paid for a pack of cigarettes in the country. That didn't have much effect on smokers. He then banned smoking in indoor spaces, you name the place, you can't smoke in it. Bars, restaurants, ballparks, atriums, massage parlors; that didn't work to well either. Does Mike stop there...hell no, he offered free nicorette gum and patches basically to anyone that wanted them, guess what it really didn't matter people just keep on smoking.
Let me give you a little bit of background on Mayor Mike, he was a former pack to two pack a day smoker who quit and like almost everyone who quits, they cannot stand it when people smoke around them cause it just reminds them of how powerful a drug nicotine is. They will do anything to discourage people from smoking.
Let me introduce you to anything, his name is Renaldo Martinez and you can here his message here. He had a tracheotomy at 39 and has to talk through a voice box that gives him just the worst spanish accent, damn it is near incomprehensible, they have to caption what he says for fear that we would misunderstand him. You would think that the city of new york, whom he is their spokesmodel for, could afford to get him a voice box that would allow him to speak proper new york english, well at least he doesn't have a long island accent.
Smoking is bad kids, keep smoking and you weel wind up talkin areely bad.
