Since Nurse Bloomberg’s crackdown on smoking (see our article of Oct. 22, 2002), New York City has issued more than 200 tickets to businesses found with ashtrays on their premises, including some found in areas not accessible to the public and even individual employees’ offices. “It doesn’t matter if it is used as a decoration, or to hold paper clips or M & M’s. No ashtrays are allowed, period.” (Clyde Haberman, “No Smoking, and Don’t Try Putting It Out”, New York Times, Dec. 2).
NYC: tickets for ashtrays
Since Nurse Bloomberg’s crackdown on smoking (see our article of Oct. 22, 2002), New York City has issued more than 200 tickets to businesses found with ashtrays on their premises, including some found in areas not accessible to the public and even individual employees’ offices. “It doesn’t matter if it is used as a decoration, […]
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