Bloomberg Credits Britain For Idea to Curb Cigarettes
A day after laying out his most ambitious plan aimed at cutting tobacco use in a decade, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said that a British law convinced him that it could be done.
“I was always skeptical,” Bloomberg told reporters on Tuesday, according to Politicker. “But it was actually done in England recently and it really did work.”
Thomas Farley, the city’s health commissioner, unveiled the proposal, which has the support of Council Speaker Christine Quinn, on Monday, would make New York the first major U.S. city to make 21 the minimum age to purchase cigarettes.
The last Bloomberg effort to curb tobacco use among teenagers came immediately after he assumed office in 2002, when he banned smoking in all public areas. Last week, he said he was supporting a council bill that would bar shop owners from advertising cigarettes in public sight.
This article appeared in print on page D23 of edition of Hamodia.
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