re: #396 lawhawk

Greets and saluts from the NYC metro area. Since we’re talking about smoking and limiting where/how it can be done, Mayor Bloomberg has come up with another anti-smoking idea - requiring apartment buildings in NYC to post smoking policies or else face fines.

It wouldn’t ban smoking from apartment buildings, but it could set the path towards fines/fees for smoking in your own apartment along the lines of rental car/leases/hotel fees for smoking in said locations.

Not a bad idea on the face of it, but given all the pressing issues facing NYC, this isn’t exactly the most important way Bloomberg should be spending his political capital. We’ve got infrastructure that is falling apart, and phase 2 of the 2d Avenue Subway needs financing - things that Bloomberg should be focusing on to insure the city’s competitiveness going forward.

But watch some folks to complain that he’s going to institute a ban on smoking in your home. That’s inaccurate and misleading.

Well, is Bloomberg coming up with this stuff out of whole cloth, or is a group(s) lobbying for it? Given that landlords already have lease clauses for deposits to cover cleaning and such when you leave I half-expect this is potentially being advocated as allowing additional deposit/fee or charges for cleaning carpets and furnishings that are smoke contaminated.