Retired NYPD cop, Audrey Silk, has decided to go anti, anti-smoking and has founded Citizens Lobby Against Smoker Harassment. Her main reason for starting this group is that she feels the Health Department is spending far too much money on telling New Yorkers to quit smoking.
The final straw was when Silk found out that graphic signs, scaring smokers into quitting would be posted at every counter selling cigarettes.
She feels smokers actually bring in a lot of tax revenue for the city. She adds, "Their rationale is that smokers haven't gotten the message. In reality we are bombarded day in day out with the message."
She has decided to give shopkeepers her own version of the sign, featuring a flaming dollar bill, that writes, "This sign cost you $4 million."
Most smokers will agree that is time that the government got away from trying to scare them off smoking and focusing on something else.
[Via: nydailynews.com]
