Staffers Keep Puffing as United Nations Votes to Ban Smoking at General Assembl

[WriteDown]

Source: Fox News

The last haven for nicotine addicts in New York City is going ... up in smoke.

The United Nations General Assembly voted this week to ban smoking at U.N. headquarters in New York, which for five years has offered a snug harbor for smokers in a city where the practice is outlawed in public places.

The U.N. buildings are located on international territory and are not subject to the city regulations that banned smoking in March 2003. As New Yorkers have adjusted, the U.N. has kept puffing happily away — but that may be about to change.

The non-binding resolution, passed by a unanimous vote of the 192-nation body, sounded a clear warning about the ill effects of second-hand smoke, which it said "can lead to disease, disability and death."......

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Fox does pretty good reporting on the UN. This just floors me. Especially since I can no longer smoke in the city.

[Solly Mack]

1. Just call it "enhanced emissions techniques" and the UN will call an inquiry

and feel assured that everything is being done to stop it because someone said they would...and people can go on smoking

I slay me

[Psephos]

2. They'll need a blue-ribbon panel, research mission, and several interim reports first n/t

[Lionel Mandrake]

3. Smoking is a nasty, dirty, filthy, vulgar, vile, disgusting, repulsive habit.

At least, that's what my father used to say.

Smoking is also addictive, and it kills others besides the smokers.

It's about time the UN took action against second-hand smoke.

[curse of greyface]

4. After a seven course meal with three types of wine I nee a cigarette dammit this is unfair. nt