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NYC Mayor Says Smoking Bans Save Lives; Urges Toledo Citizens to Vote in Favor of Smoking Ban [09/03-2]
Excerpts from: N.Y. mayor says smoking ban saves lives
Toledo Blade [09/02/04]
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who pushed through a smoking ban in
restaurants and bars in his city, said yesterday that he hopes Toledoans vote on
Nov. 2 to keep their city's smoking ban in place.
"Nothing I'll ever do for the rest of my life will save as many lives," he said.
At first, Mr. Bloomberg said, bar owners fought him, but began to realize that they no longer had to have separate smoking and nonsmoking sections and would not be sued by nonsmokers. He said companies such as Philip Morris USA did not fight the measure "because they realize their future is in other products." Now, he says, when he passes by bars and restaurants, patrons wave their cigarettes at him, "but they do it with a smile." At first, he said the reaction was not so pleasant.
A coalition of Toledo bar owners, angered by City Council's decision last year to ban smoking in most bars and restaurants, unless they constructed separate smoking rooms, collected enough signatures to place an initiative on the Nov. 2 ballot that if approved, would allow smoking in more bars and restaurants in Toledo with less restrictions.
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