NYC mayor doesn’t want you smoking in your own home

It’s already illegal to smoke in New York’s public spaces, as well as in restaurants and open-air outdoor venues.

But now New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio is putting together a de facto smoking ban that, if successful, will encourage landlords to serve as stand-ins for the nanny police. It’s a “soft” ban that aims to use the private sector to bereave smokers of their vice sticks in the ultimate place of privacy and refuge: the home.

De Blasio — evidently a firm believer in the statist maxim that “the process is the punishment” — is promoting a new initiative that aims to “pressure landlords and developers to prohibit smoking in their apartment complexes,” according to the New York Post.

Like all smoking bans, this one has the people’s health in mind. The de Blasio administration is paying four health advocacy groups to promote the initiative to landlords of multi-housing units, because, as a health department spokesman told the Post, “Everyone benefits from smoke-free housing.”

If the initiative is successful, the city will stand behind landlords who include smoking bans in their lease agreements.

The anti-smoking push is a legacy of a larger “sustainability” initiative crafted during the administration of Michael Bloomberg, de Blasio’s predecessor.

But, the Post reports, de Blasio “intends to go further” in carrying out the “One New York: The Plan for a Strong and Just City” initiative by accelerating the timeline.

New Yorkers, smoke ’em if — and while — you got ’em.

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