john-gambling

Bloomberg on the smoking ban

Gawker · 03/29/03 02:01PM

A reader writes, "[The] Mayor Bloomberg interview is being replayed on John Gambling on WABC Radio this morning, he's talking about how bar owners are secretly in favor of smoking bans. And he uses that as an argument for banning it statewidesaying the only thing bar owners are worried about is people going to other bars where smoking is allowed. Said something like, I can't tell you how many waitresses and bartenders have come up to me and said, 'Thanks for saving my life!'. [Bloomberg] says the law will be self-enforcing, and 'nobody will remember that you used to be able to smoke in those places!'"