New York mayor wants to ban stores from displaying cigarettes

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

New York mayor wants to ban stores from displaying cigarettes

By Jonathan Allen
NEW YORK | Mon Mar 18, 2013 1:44pm EDT

(Reuters) - New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Monday proposed banning retail stores from displaying cigarettes as part of his effort to reduce smoking rates in the city.

Bloomberg, who has taken aggressive steps to curb smoking in public places and promote health with various restrictions on restaurants, plans to introduce to the City Council on Wednesday two bills that would require retailers to keep cigarettes in a drawer or other concealed location.

"Young people are targets of marketing and the availability of cigarettes, and this legislation will help prevent another generation from the ill health and shorter life expectancy that comes with smoking," Bloomberg told a news conference.

Stores would still be allowed to advertise and display pricing information for the tobacco products they sell, but the actual products would have to be hidden from public view except during a sale or during restocking.

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/03/18/us-usa-newyork-smoking-idUSBRE92H0S820130318

[Rex]

1. Hey when you have your own private army

you start to do things like a King. NOW King Bloomers wants to hide cigs...before it was soda size. Funny, you would think poverty would be a big issue...hahaha just kidding, why would a KING worry about the poor serfs? THEY are the ones that smoke and bother HIS HIGHNESS and his beautiful mind!

[MinneapolisMatt]

2. Good grief! ENOUGH!

This is simply ridiculous.

[HappyMe]

3. Oh FFS!

They are behind the counter. If you look the tiniest bit too young, you get asked for an ID.

[Apophis]

4. Did he run out of things to do?

[SomethingFishy]

5. "Think of the Children!"

"Young people are targets of marketing and the availability of cigarettes, and this legislation will help prevent another generation from the ill health and shorter life expectancy that comes with smoking," Bloomberg told a news conference.

Who the fuck is he kidding? Smokers are pariahs nowadays. I'm sure those "young people" are looking at me out in front of a building freezing my ass off in the middle of winter going "man, I wanna be cool like that guy".

[union_maid]

6. Time for a pool!

What will Bloomberg think up next,? Cause it's clear he's thinking stuff up for entertainment value now. I hope that some creative minds at DU can help Bloomberg think up more regulations to put into place for New Yorkers' own good. Oh, I know. How about banning the display of the NY Post on newstands. It's aimed at intellectually limited people and is not good for them. It should still be legal to sell it, because freedom of the press, but maybe in a plain brown wrapper?

[premium]

7. More nonsense from the Dear Leader.

Doesn't he have better things to do?

[Zorra]

8. Oh, no! We need to keep our product as visible as possible!

Makes it much harder to hook kids without advertising.

Memo to Staff: There will be a marketing strategy meeting to counteract this attack on free enterprise at 3 PM today.

Signed, RJ Reynolds-Morris,
CEO
GOP Tobacco and Healthcare, Inc.

--------"Thank You For Smoking!"