CBS News:  “Many Believe The Big Apple Has Become A Nanny State.  Smokers have just one message for Mayor Michael Bloomberg and City Council members: butt out of our business. . . . By a vote of 36 to 11 on Wednesday the City Council approved a bill to ban smoking in all city parks, beaches and pedestrian plazas.”

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